Safety Investigation Report 2018:1 Factual Information/1.5/1.5.3 Pilot-in-Command/2
SAFETY INVESTIGATION REPORT MH370 (9M-MRO)
1.5.3 Pilot-in-Command
2) Royal Malaysia Police’s Report on Flight Simulator of PIC
The Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) seized the PIC’s home flight simulator from the residence of the PIC on 15 March 2014.
The RMP Forensic Report dated 19 May 2014 documented more than 2,700 coordinates retrieved from separate file fragments and most of them are default game coordinates.
It was also discovered that there were seven ‘manually programmed’ waypoint4 coordinates (Figure 1.5A below), that when connected together, will create a flight path from KLIA to an area south of the Indian Ocean through the Andaman Sea. These coordinates were stored in the Volume Shadow Information (VSI) file dated 03 February 2014. The function of this file was to save information when a computer is left idle for more than 15 minutes. Hence, the RMP Forensic Report could not determine if the waypoints came from one or more files.
The RMP Forensic Report on the simulator also did not find any data that showed the aircraft was performing climb, attitude or heading manoeuvres, nor did they find any data that showed a similar route flown by MH370.
The RMP Forensic Report concluded that there were no unusual activities other than game-related flight simulations.
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4 ‘Manually programmed waypoints’ - Manually programmed waypoints are waypoints that are not published in Airway Charts
Figure 1.5A - Snapshot of Seven Manually Programmed ‘Waypoints’
Source: Royal Malaysia Police