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<h2>MH370 Crew: Data Matching</h2>
<p>There are several sources of information about the crew on-board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.</p>

<h5>Media Statement: Pilots</h5>
<p>Malaysia Airlines' 3rd Media Statement at 10:30 AM {{Day 001}} identified the two pilots:-</p>
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<p>The flight was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian aged 53. He has a total flying hours of 18,365 hours. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981. First officer, Fariq Ab.Hamid, a Malaysian, is aged 27. He has a total flying hours of 2,763 hours. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 2007.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><u>Source</u>: Malaysia Airlines {{Ref-ID:MAS-MS3-001-ZH}}</p>
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<h5>Passenger Manifest: MH 370 tech & Cabin Crew</h5>
<p>The Passenger Manifest released by Malaysia Airlines at 7:20 pm {{Day 001}} with the 5th Media Statement listed 'MH 370 tech & Cabin Crew' by name and nationality.</p>
<p>In this document Tech Crew refers to the aircraft pilots or Flight Crew. The list does not identify the role of each person.</p>

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<h5>API Data: Flight Crew </h5>
<p>A passenger manifest released in Beijing also listed the names of the crew on-board MH370. Additional detail includes Passport Number, Gender and Date of Birth. The document is only available as a series of images. The relevant section is shown below, followed by a transcription:-</p>

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<p class="caption-center"><u>Source</u>: Beijing International Airport. Published by SAYS (Malaysia){{RefID:SAYSMY-002}}</p>
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<p>The table below contains the data transcribed from the Beijing version of the passenger manifest. Several changes have been made during the process of transcription from the API data:-</p>
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     <li>Column 2 is the passport number, which is not relevant here, and has not been transcribed.</li>
     <li>Column 6 contains either a 1 or 2 which correlates with a code for gender where 1 = male and 2 = female. </li>
     <li>Column 7 is Date of Birth in Year/Month/Day format. For ease of reading this has been transcribed in the format YYYY/MM/DD.</li>
     <li>The order of first and last names for Patrick Gomes has been changed to be consistent with the Malaysia Airlines Flight Manifests.</li>
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<p>Additional Columns</p>
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     <li>The numbers 1 and 2 have been converted to male and female gender in an additional column.</li>
     <li>Using the date of birth provided here, each person's age in years has been calculated as it would have been on {{Day 001}} and placed in an additional column headed Actual Age.</li>
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<h5>Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018: Profiles</h5>
<p>The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 included profiles for the Flight Crew and Cabin Crew in the <i>Safety Investigation Report</i> at [[SIR 2018:1 Factual Information/1.5|Section 1.5 PERSONNEL INFORMATION]], but this Section refers to each person by role only, and names were not provided.</p>
<p>The following table has been compiled from the information in <i>Section 1.5</i>.</p>

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<h5>Data Match: Crew Profiles Summary vs API Data</h5>

<p>The identity of the Pilot-in-Command of MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and the First Officer, Fariq Ab.Hamid, as confirmed by media statements, is now well known.</p>
<p>However, note that the age of both Captain Shah and First Officer Hamid as reported is different from their age as calculated from the <i>Advanced Passenger Information</i> data using their birth dates. It would seem that each person's age was determined simply by the difference between their year of birth and 2014. So, assuming that the <i>Advanced Passenger Information</i> data is correct, on 8 March 2014 Captain Shah, for example, would have been only 52, but in his 53rd year.</p>

<p>Most of the Cabin Crew names and roles can be matched using a combination of two data items - gender and age.  In the tables below the names and roles have been sorted by gender then age.</p>

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<p>Comparing the two sets of information shows that all of the male crew can be matched to a role, but only two of the female crew can be matched to their roles on MH370.</p>

<h5>Leading Stewardess and Flight Stewardess 1</h5>
<p>The remaining data match involves determining whether Ng Yar Chien or Tan Ser Kuin was the Leading Stewardess.</p>
<p>Following the loss of flight MH370 many media outlets published profiles of the crew and passengers on-board. However, none of the major stories distinguished between the roles of Leading Stewardess and Flight Stewardess. Most identified the Chief Stewardess as Goh Sock Lay and referred to the remaining female cabin crew with the terms stewardess or flight attendants.</p>
<p>There is, however, another source (no longer available on the Internet) which compiled data about each crew member as a table, shown below:-</p> 

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<h2>Summary</h2>

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