This is the moment the pilots of the doomed Malaysian Airlines flight walked through security for the
final time before take-off.
CCTV footage captures Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of the Boeing 777 flight, being frisked while walking through security at Kuala Lumpar International Airport.
He is then joined by co-pilot Fariq Hamid who is also searched before the pair walk onto the plane.
Officials revealed today that it is possible the aircraft could have landed and transmitted a satellite signal from the ground.
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Caputured: Airport security CCTV of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of Malaysia Boeing 777 Airlines flight.
Shah, a father-of-three, was said to be a ‘fanatical’ supporter of the country’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim – jailed for homosexuality just hours before the jet disappeared.
It has also been revealed that the pilot’s wife and three children moved out of the family home the
day before the plane went missing.
It comes as FBI investigators say the disappearance of MH370 may have been ‘an act of piracy’ and the possibility that hundreds of passengers are being held at an unknown location has not been ruled out.
Officials revealed today that it is possible the aircraft could have landed and transmitted a satellite signal from the ground.
CCTV footage captures Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of the Boeing 777 flight, being frisked while walking through security at Kuala Lumpar International Airport.
If the plane was intact and had enough electrical power in reserve, it would be able to send out a radar ‘ping’.
The final words from the missing Malaysian jetliner’s cockpit have given no indication anything was wrong even though one of the plane’s communications systems had already been disabled, officials have said adding to suspicions that one or both of the pilots were involved in the disappearance.
As authorities examined a flight simulator that was confiscated from the home of one of the pilots and
dug through the background of all 239 people on board and the ground crew that serviced the plane,
they also were grappling with the enormity of the search ahead of them, warning they needed more data to narrow down the hunt for the aircraft.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur at around 12.40am on March 8, headed to Beijing.
Footage: Co-pilot Fariq Hamid who was also searched before the pair walked onto the plane.
Co-pilot Fariq Hamid is frisked by security at Kuala Lumpar International Airport before the flight took off.
On Saturday, Malaysia’s government confirmed that the plane was deliberately diverted and may
have flown as far north as Central Asia, or south into the vast reaches of the Indian Ocean.
Authorities have said someone on board the plane first disabled one of its communications systems –
the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS – at 1.07am.
Around 14 minutes later, the transponder, which identifies the plane to commercial radar systems, was also shut down.
