The pilot of the Malaysian airliner that disappeared in the Indian Ocean tried a similar flight on a simulator

The pilot of a Malaysian airliner that went missing in the Indian Ocean in 2014 tested a similar flight at home on a simulator before a real flight.

According to New York Magazine, citing its sources, the FBI examined the pilot's hard drives and found records of his training on the Microsoft Flight Simulator X simulator . One of the routes on the simulator was similar to the one on which the real plane subsequently moved. According to hard drive records, the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur and flew over the Indian Ocean until it ran out of fuel.

In the image below, red indicates the route on the simulator, and yellow is the estimated route of the real ship.

NY Magazine notes that the approximate coincidence of routes may be a mere coincidence, but it may turn out that the pilot specifically directed the plane to the far ocean.

• On March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. Soon the plane stopped communicating. Investigators believe the plane turned around and headed south. The place of the fall has not yet been established; managed to find only a few pieces of debris that washed ashore. On July 22, 2016, the Malaysian authorities announced that the search for the liner had been suspended.
• The pilot of the plane was Zachary Ahmad Shah. The Malaysian report emphasized that he was an experienced pilot; authorities denied that he could have purposely destroyed the aircraft.