Report: MH370 pilot shared correspondence with woman before ill-fated flight
NST ONLINESeptember 7, 2016
KUALA LUMPUR: The pilot of missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah reportedly shared a private correspondence with a married woman two days before the aircraft went missing on March 8, 2014.
However, the exact conversation was not revealed by the woman, Fatima Pardi in a recent interview with news portal, The Australian.
“That last conversation was just between me and him. I don’t want to talk about it.
“I’m afraid what I say will be misunderstood. It was a personal matter, a private issue,” Fatima was quoted as saying.
Fatima, a former teacher, is said to have developed a close relationship with Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah after meeting him during the country’s general election period.
The relationship, according to her, had eventually blossomed to a point where Zaharie became a father figure to her three children, one of whom has severe cerebral palsy.
In their bid to seek more clues into the flight’s disappearance, Malaysian investigators have spoken to Fatima four times so far, she said.
Contrary to rumours however, Fatima denied that she and Zaharie were having an affair. She said her only motivation to speak up now was to quash speculation that Zaharie might have hijacked the plane himself.
“This is not a lovey-dovey story. He was a friend of mine. We were friends.
“He told me he saw potential in me and that he would help me build a better future for myself and my children.”
Fatima is unsure if Zaharie’s immediate family members knew about their relationship, but claimed that he had taken her children to meet his elder sister, Sakinab.
Last July, New York Magazine published a murder-suicide theory citing leaked information from the missing plane’s investigations.
The article reported that the flight simulator found at Zaharie’s home had a flight path that was similar to the one MH370 is believed to have taken after straying from its initial flight plan.
Malaysian and Australian authorities however, have vehemently denied that theory, claiming that the information only suggests “possibility of planning.”
MH370 was carrying 239 passengers and crew en route to Beijing, China before it disappeared from radar.
The Boeing 777-200ER has yet to be found.
NST ONLINESeptember 7, 2016
KUALA LUMPUR: The pilot of missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah reportedly shared a private correspondence with a married woman two days before the aircraft went missing on March 8, 2014.
However, the exact conversation was not revealed by the woman, Fatima Pardi in a recent interview with news portal, The Australian.
“That last conversation was just between me and him. I don’t want to talk about it.
“I’m afraid what I say will be misunderstood. It was a personal matter, a private issue,” Fatima was quoted as saying.
Fatima, a former teacher, is said to have developed a close relationship with Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah after meeting him during the country’s general election period.
The relationship, according to her, had eventually blossomed to a point where Zaharie became a father figure to her three children, one of whom has severe cerebral palsy.
In their bid to seek more clues into the flight’s disappearance, Malaysian investigators have spoken to Fatima four times so far, she said.
Contrary to rumours however, Fatima denied that she and Zaharie were having an affair. She said her only motivation to speak up now was to quash speculation that Zaharie might have hijacked the plane himself.
“This is not a lovey-dovey story. He was a friend of mine. We were friends.
“He told me he saw potential in me and that he would help me build a better future for myself and my children.”
Fatima is unsure if Zaharie’s immediate family members knew about their relationship, but claimed that he had taken her children to meet his elder sister, Sakinab.
Last July, New York Magazine published a murder-suicide theory citing leaked information from the missing plane’s investigations.
The article reported that the flight simulator found at Zaharie’s home had a flight path that was similar to the one MH370 is believed to have taken after straying from its initial flight plan.
Malaysian and Australian authorities however, have vehemently denied that theory, claiming that the information only suggests “possibility of planning.”
MH370 was carrying 239 passengers and crew en route to Beijing, China before it disappeared from radar.
The Boeing 777-200ER has yet to be found.
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