Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says the movements of a missing plane were consistent with a deliberate act by someone who turned the jet back across Malaysia and onwards to the west. Sarah Toms reports.
The search goes on ... passengers look at a "digital earth" displayed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang. Source: AFP
MALAYSIAN police have dismantled a flight simulator from the home of the pilot MH370 and have set it up at police headquarters to examine.
Experts are now looking at the simulator in a bid to uncover if it shows anything which may be related to the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.
Foreign intelligence agencies have been asked to do background checks on all passengers on the flight but so far have found "no negative records".
Background checks are also being done on all crew and ground staff, including engineers who had anything to do with the missing plane.
And it has been confirmed that the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, did not ask to fly together on the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight the night the plane disappeared.
Malaysia's police chief, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, said police continue to focus on the four areas of hijack, sabotage and personal or psychological problems among the crew and passengers, including ground staff.
"We took possession of a simulator, a flight simulator and we have dismantled it form the home (of the pilot) and we have assembled it at our office and we getting experts to look at it now," Mr Abu Bakar said.
"Everybody on board MH370 is being investigated, including the pilot and co-pilot. In mind of the new development we went to the house and took possession of the simulator, everything that would help us in our investigation," he said, adding this had not been done earlier because "we didn't see the necessity".
Home searched ... Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a 53-year-old Malaysian, has been named as the pilot of the Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing. Source: News Corp Australia
At a briefing last night in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's police chief, along with the country's defence minister gave details on the latest in the hunt for MH370, which disappeared without trace more than one week ago. The search is today entering its 10th day.
Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search now covered 11 different countries as well as "deep and remote oceans" and that 25 countries were now involved in the search effort.
He said authorities had now requested further sensitive satellite data from countries including the US, China and France.
"This is an unprecedented case and what we are going through here … is being monitored across the world and it may change aviation history. I think there is lessons to be learned by everybody," Mr Hussein said.
He said there had been no demands or contact from any particular groups, making it difficult to determine if the plane had been hijacked.
Items seized ... security guards stand in front of the main gate house of the area where captain Zahari Ahmad Shah lives. Source: AFP
Police went to the homes of the pilot and co-pilot on Saturday afternoon after the country's prime minister announced that there had been deliberate actions by someone on the plane for its communication systems to be shut own and deviate from its route.
He said that foreign intelligence agencies had been asked to assist by doing background checks on all the passengers and some countries had yet to respond.
"We have not yet received the report of all background checks of all the passengers. As yet there are still a few countries yet to respond to our requests. There are a few foreign intelligence agencies who have cleared all the passengers," Mr Abu Bakar said.
'There is hope' ... a note for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane is pasted on a message board at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur. Source: AP
He denied reports that the pilot's family had moved out of their home the day before the plane disappeared.
Malaysian Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the plane had taken off with the normal amount of fuel and some extra for a flight to Beijing. There was not extra fuel on board.
And he clarified that a re-enactment of the MH370's flight path was not done in an actual Boeing 777-200 but was done in a flight simulator.
Mr Yahya said this confirmed that the plane, captured on radar and satellite, "could possibly" be that 777.
The Malaysian Foreign Ministry briefed representatives from 22 countries, including Australia, yesterday in Kuala Lumpur.
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