A reliable outside Tree House military source says “watch the Maldives“..

  • Police investigate data from home flight  simulator of captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53
  • Investigators speak of his ‘obsessive’  support for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim
  • Police officers fear  Ibrahim being jailed could have left Shah profoundly upset

Activist: Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah(Via UK Daily Mail ) Police are investigating the possibility that  the pilot of missing Flight MH370 hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre  political protest.
The Mail on Sunday has learned that Captain  Zaharie Ahmad Shah was an ‘obsessive’ supporter of Malaysia’s opposition leader,  Anwar Ibrahim. And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala Lumpur it is  understood 53-year-old Shah attended a controversial trial in which Ibrahim was  jailed for five years.
Campaigners say the politician, the key  challenger to Malaysia’s ruling party, was the victim of a long-running smear  campaign and had faced trumped-up charges.
Police sources have confirmed that Shah was a  vocal political activist – and fear that the court decision left him profoundly  upset. It was against this background that, seven hours later, he took control  of a Boeing 777-200 bound for Beijing and carrying 238 passengers and  crew.
Yesterday, Malaysian police searched his  house in the upmarket Kuala Lumpur suburb of Shah Alam, where he had installed a  home-made flight simulator. But this newspaper can reveal that investigators had  already spent much of last week examining two laptops removed from Shah’s home.  One is believed to contain data from the simulator
Confirming rising fears, Malaysia’s prime  minister Najib Razak announced yesterday that MH370 was deliberately steered off  course after its communication system was switched off. He said it headed west  over the Malaysian seaboard and could have flown for another seven hours on its  fuel reserves.
It is not yet clear where the plane was  taken, however Mr Razak said the most recent satellite data suggests the plane  could have been making for one of two possible flight corridors. The search,  involving 43 ships and 58 aircraft from 15 countries, switched from the South  China Sea to the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
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Data showing the number of plausible runways  where the plane could have touched down – which need to be at least 5,000ft –  offer a baffling number of potential locations.
According to a map drawn up by U.S. radio  station WNYC, there are 634 locations which could fit, from Australia to the  Maldives to Pakistan.
However, the true number is likely to be even  higher, as estimates of how far the plane could have travelled have been  increased since the calculations were carried out.
US investigators say faint ‘pings’ were being  transmitted for several hours after the flight lost contact with the  ground.
Meanwhile, military radar showed the jet  climbed to 45,000ft – above its service limit – which could have been a  deliberate attempt to knock out the passengers and crew.
Anwar Ibrahim is a broadly popular  democracy  icon and former deputy prime minister whose prosecution on a  charge of sodomy  is seen by many Malaysians as political persecution.   (read more)

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