KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian authorities leave no stone unturned in their investigation of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370, which now enters its ninth day, since the aircraft disappeared on March 8.
The background checks of all the 239 MH370 passengers and crew, including the engineers, who may have had contact with the aircraft before take-off, could help the police to establish a motive behind its disappearance.
It could probably shed some lights to the authority on where the plane might have gone after the plane diverted twice from its original route to Beijing, China.
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said police had spoken to family members of the MH370 pilot, Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and experts were examining the pilot's flight simulator.
He said the police also searched the home of the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27.
The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200ER aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard vanished from the radar about an hour after leaving the KLIA at 12.41am on March 8. It was scheduled to arrive in Beijing, China at 6.30 am the same day.
The fate of the passengers is still unknown as the search and rescue (SAR) operations have yet to locate the missing aircraft.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Flight MH370 had deviated from its original path and flew in a westerly direction back over peninsular Malaysia before turning northwest.
The aircraft's last communication with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors - northern or southern.
Based on the flight projection, Malaysian authority believed the plane could have gone into one of the flight corridors which was a northern corridor stretching approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
On the SAR, Hishammuddin said Malaysian officials were liaising with 15 countries along the northern and southern corridors for assistance in relation to the missing aircraft.
"Malaysian officials are currently discussing with all partners how best to deploy assets along the two corridors," he said.
The background checks of all the 239 MH370 passengers and crew, including the engineers, who may have had contact with the aircraft before take-off, could help the police to establish a motive behind its disappearance.
It could probably shed some lights to the authority on where the plane might have gone after the plane diverted twice from its original route to Beijing, China.
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said police had spoken to family members of the MH370 pilot, Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and experts were examining the pilot's flight simulator.
He said the police also searched the home of the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27.
The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200ER aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard vanished from the radar about an hour after leaving the KLIA at 12.41am on March 8. It was scheduled to arrive in Beijing, China at 6.30 am the same day.
The fate of the passengers is still unknown as the search and rescue (SAR) operations have yet to locate the missing aircraft.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Flight MH370 had deviated from its original path and flew in a westerly direction back over peninsular Malaysia before turning northwest.
The aircraft's last communication with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors - northern or southern.
Based on the flight projection, Malaysian authority believed the plane could have gone into one of the flight corridors which was a northern corridor stretching approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
On the SAR, Hishammuddin said Malaysian officials were liaising with 15 countries along the northern and southern corridors for assistance in relation to the missing aircraft.
"Malaysian officials are currently discussing with all partners how best to deploy assets along the two corridors," he said.
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