MH370 Missing flight pilot may have simulated flight

Data recovered from a home flight simulator owned by the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that someone had used the device to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean — where the missing jet is believed to have crashed, Australian officials have said.

New York magazine reported last week that an FBI analysis showed Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had conducted a simulated flight to the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished along a similar route.

Malaysia rejected the report as false, but Australia’s Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre confirmed yesterday that the captain’s simulator did indeed show that “someone had plotted a course to the southern Indian Ocean”.