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.
This is one of those things they should have kept to themselves. IMHO
My guess is, it was his lover
The article didn’t say she was going to be questioned about the phone call.
What the investigators are going to do is find out from her if there were mysterious things going on, if he spoke about things which could be connected to the plane being missing, if there were any changes recently in his actions or thinking or emotions, if he was meeting with people she didn’t know, if there were strange calls in the past ... and basically everything about him and his thinking and his interests and his contacts.
Hey, there are a lot of Freepers who would want to get an anonymous phone, too ... so they wouldn’t be “logged” by snooping authorities — and it wouldn’t have a thing to do with illegal stuff or terrorism (although Obama and Holder would insist that it does).
When was this SIM card/phone purchased? Were there other calls to the pilot from this number historically? Can they find calls to others from this phone?
And the three questions are:
Do you know how to turn off an airplane transponder?
Can you reprogram the Flight Management System computer?
Have you ever been to Pakistan?
It was purchased very, very recently. Just this call from this phone to the pilot. Any “other calls” to different numbers has not been reported.
Real soon, maybe in the next couple of hours searchers will find the floating debris and it will most likely be tsunami debris, wreckage of a different nature or a large stack of wooden pallets that probably fell off a cargo ship.
And then there will be this great big sucking sound of a silence vacuum as all the search efforts to date have only found garbage.
Find his girlfriend, see if it was hers. If not, it may be significant.
If he has a girlfriend ... :-) ...
Separated, yet living together? Isn’t separating when you separate and move apart? This is just nonsense so that the wife won’t be expected to have too much personal information about her “estranged” husband. Then she moves out just the day before? Interesting timing.
Pilot is a jihadist, IMHO.
Just because he had explosives strapped to his backside doesnt make him a terrorist.
Reports the day after the ones saying that she moved out, said that she didn’t move out .
You can’t believe anything in this story, especially what’s being reported the first day it breaks.
She said “Miles to go before you sleep”.
Or trying to make a radio out of coconuts and palm leaves.
Try looking on the other end, I hear they all got a hole down there!
Helen is dead, thus she would contact him directly from the beyond and wouldn’t need a sim card
They're in LA?
LA is on an island? ;-P
Soon …
I’m going to live ion Isla La-la ...
Awaiting a picture of “mystery woman” to determine guilt or innocence.
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