Royal Malaysia Police Reports
MH370: Royal Malaysia Police Reports
Like all police and intelligence services the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) has not produced any report on MH370 for public reading. Police conduct criminal investigations, collect evidence which could be presented in a Court, and such information is never released prior to a court hearing. The Police Commissioner and Deputies attended media conferences and may have provided some details of the progress of their investigation which has been quoted by mainstream media, but that is all.
However, there are two items of interest which are noted here:-
- A set of files which appear to contain copies of folders collated by the Royal Malaysia Police were released on the Internet, despite their security classification and risk to the person who obtained the data. Over time these folders have been withdrawn from various sites, such as scribd, but the files may have been kept by various journalists and others.
- The Australian Transport Safety Bureau was the first organisation to officially confirm rumours that a flight simulator owned by the Pilot-in-Command, Captain Shah, may have been used to 'plan' a flight to the southern Indian Ocean. Based on information provided to the ATSB by the RMP The Operational Search for MH370 (ATSB 2017) includes this statement:-
Six weeks before the accident flight the PIC had used his simulator to fly a route, initially similar to part of the route flown by MH370 up the Strait of Malacca, with a left-hand turn and track into the southern Indian Ocean. There were enough similarities to the flight path of MH370 for the ATSB to carefully consider the possible implications for the underwater search area.
Source: ATSB Pilot in Command’s flight simulator
The set of RMP Folders (1) contains data on which this statement was likely based. This information is described and analysed in the section Flight Simulator Analysis.