Posted on 03/22/2014 11:18:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 received a two-minute call shortly before take-off from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity, as investigators question the pilot's estranged wife, a British newspaper reported.
It was one of the last calls made to or from the mobile phone of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah in the hours before his Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur on March 8, reported The Mail on Sunday.
Investigators are treating it as potentially significant because anyone buying a pay-as-you-go SIM card in Malaysia has to fill out a form giving their identity card or passport number.
Introduced as an anti-terrorism measure following 9/11, this ensures that every number is registered to a traceable person.
But in this case police traced the number to a shop selling SIM cards in Kuala Lumpur. They found that it had been bought 'very recently' by someone who gave a woman's name - but was using a false identity.
The discovery raises fears of a possible link between Captain Zaharie, 53, and terror groups whose members routinely use untraceable SIM cards. Everyone else who spoke to the pilot on his phone in the hours before the flight took off has already been interviewed.
In a separate development, The Mail on Sunday had learned that investigators were now poised to question Zaharie's estranged wife in detail.
Although the couple - who have three children - were separated, they had been living under the same roof.
The mystery caller emerged when Malaysian investigators examined the phone records of both Zaharie and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid.
Investigators were keen to trace the caller and interview them, although they have stressed that the fact that the SIM card was registered to a non-existent ID card does not necessarily indicate a criminal or terrorist connection.
“...although they have stressed that the fact that the SIM card was registered to a non-existent ID card does not necessarily indicate a criminal or terrorist connection.”
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Yeah, right! Yes, sure we believe you. /sarc
This just gets curiouser and curiouser! Next thing you know, the passengers will be found on some island, making imitation space ships, and acting a whole lot like zombies.
Well, wow, “a mystery woman”. I bet he won’t want to go home now...
She just wanted to wish him a safe trip and warn him to watch out for black holes.
If only he’d listened.
maybe more like LOST......cue spiral....
Dead in Pockistan.
I was going to try to catch a nap while they are looking for a hole in the drill string...
...another nap shot to Hell...
Didn’t they say the pilot had moved his family a day or two before the flight? Or was news rescinded?
Maybe he moved his family to protect them because he was being blackmailed.
Speaking of Black....Oh never mind.
Captain Shah! This is your lucky day. You MAY HAVE just won two tickets on a one way trip, all expenses paid to Pakistan!!! Just answer three questions correctly. Interested?
They're in LA?
You just won the game.
No, his wife left him.
hmmmmm....I thought the wife left the day before....how would she know about the phone call??
New thread new possibilities for the book/movie
Pilot gets rid of copilot shortly after sign off and bails out. Girlfriend picks him up as he passes back over the island. They create new Identities and live happily ever after
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