Missing Plane MH370: Maldives Island Residents Report 'Low Flying Jet'
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Maldives islanders saw a "low flying jumbo jet" on
the day the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared, according to reports.
The
Haveeru news website has reported that witnesses saw a plane flying
low at around 6.15am on March 8.
It was flying north to south-west, according to the report.
"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island
before," a witness told the organisation.
"We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not
one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly.
"It's not just me either, several other residents have
reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to
see what was causing the tremendous noise too."
The news came as it emerged that investigators have discovered the runways of five airports
near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight
simulator.
An unnamed source told the local paper the Berita
Harian that while it was too early to make any conclusions on the new
finding, it was still considered an important element in the probe on the
whereabouts of the plane and its 239 people.
“The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male
International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego
Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway
lengths of 1,000 metres.
“We are not discounting the possibility that the plane
landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the
theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills, or in an open space,” the
source was quoted as saying.
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