Missing Plane’s Pilot Received Untraceable Call Before Flight

[Who Is Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah?]



[Aishah Zaharie and her father ... Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.]
"This morning, Malaysia received new satellite images from the French authorities showing potential objects in the vicinity of the southern corridor," the Malaysian Transport Ministry said in a statement. "Malaysia immediately relayed these images to the Australian rescue co-ordination centre."
The statement gave no details as to whether the objects were in the same vicinity as the other possible finds in a vast swathe of some of the most inhospitable sea territory on Earth.

Meanwhile, investigators in Kuala Lumpur are trying to ascertain the identity of a caller who spoke with the pilot not long before the ill-fated plane took off, The Sunday Daily Mail reported.

The call— two minutes in duration— was placed to Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's mobile phone from a cell phone with a pay-as-you-go SIM card. Authorities traced the card to a shop in Kuala Lumpur.

Investigators say that the ID provided for the purchase, as required by law, turned out to be bogus. All that is known is that the purchaser gave a woman's name.


While the development raises the possibility of a terrorist connection, such clandestine methods are also habitually used by political opponents of the government who don't want their conversations traced, the Mail reported.

The FBI was reportedly pressing Malaysian investigators to interrogate the pilot's estranged wife, Faizah. Though they lived in the same house with their children, the pair were said to be separated.

So far, local authorities have spoken with her, but have not pressed the issue of her husband's frame of mind, according to the Mail.

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