The pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane had plotted a flight path to a remote island in the southern Indian Ocean, investigators claim.
The route, which was deleted before MH370 disappeared on March 8, was made on a home flight simulator machine used for practice by its captain, Zaharie Shah, reports the Telegraph.
The discovery has renewed speculation about the missing flight, questioning whether he deliberately hijacked his own plane with 239 people on board and diverted it from its approved flight path to Beijing.
Detectives raided Capt Zaharie’s home in Kuala Lumpur and took away his flight simulator as part of their investigation.
At the same time tracking information from the British Inmarsat satellite company indicated the flight had doubled back across the Malay Peninsula, turned left and headed towards the southern Indian Ocean.
Sources close to the investigation confirmed to The Telegraph on Sunday that a deleted flight path had been recovered from Capt Zaharie’s simulator which had been used to practice landing an aircraft on a small runway on an unnamed island in the far southern Indian Ocean.
