MH370: No evidence based on ‘data-leaked’ FBI report — Liow

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia does not have any evidence pertaining to the speculation on the involvement of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 pilot in the murder or suicide attempt, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

When asked to comment on media reports based on ‘data-leaked’ from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Liow said : “As you all are aware, all the evidence brought by FBI is not given to the Malaysian team. We don’t have all the evidence.”

He said the investigation into the missing jetliner was still on-going.

“We let the investigation team detect whatever evidence they have,” he said when met after witnessing the signing ceremony between the Malaysia Airlines and Boeing for a deal of 50 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes here yesterday.

Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

The Boeing 777-200ER jetliner has yet to be found despite massive search operations in the southern Indian Ocean, where the aircraft was believed to have ended its flight after diverting from its original route.

Three nations - Malaysia, China and Australia – have agreed to suspend but not terminate the search for the ill- fated aircraft upon completion of the priority 120,000 square kilometre search area.

The international magazine, New York in its article cited a leaked FBI report showing Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah using a simulator less than a month before the aircraft’s disappearance to practise a flight across the southern Indian Ocean closely matching MH370’s route.

Liow appealed to those with evidence in relation to MH370 to hand them to the investigation team.

“We don’t have the evidence, if you have, give it to the investigation team,” he said. — Bernama