Zaharie Ahmad Shah

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Zaharie Ahmad Shah (born July 31, 1961 in Penang ; officially declared dead on March 8, 2014 ) was a Malaysian pilot .

As the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , he died with it. For example, a journalist from Spiegel claimed without any evidence that he could have committed pilot suicide. According to the official investigation report, there is no evidence of this.

Life

He has been with Malaysia Airlines since 1981 and is very experienced with over 18,000 flight hours. As an examiner, he was authorized to conduct flight simulator tests for pilots. As a hobby he used to play soccer and had built a flight simulator.

Individual evidence

  1. Flight MH370 The mass murder of a suicide, by Marco Evers in Der Spiegel , March 7, 2020, [1]
  2. Safety Investigation Report: Malaysia Airlines Boeing B777-200ER (9M-MRO). (PDF) The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370, July 30, 2018, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  3. Pamela Lillian Valemont, Unfit To Fly: Andreas Lubitz, [2]