MAS only tried to contact missing flight MH370 twice over six hours

Ana Ghoib Syeikh Malaya 9:09 PTG
MALAYSIA Airlines only attempted to contact missing flight MH370 twice over six hours, it was reported today.

Australian news website news.com.au said that the revelation came from a close examination of a 55-page report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) into the disappearance of the plane.

It claimed that the report also showed that no one in the cockpit used aircraft waypoints to set the Boeing 777's course south over the Indian Ocean.

This would seem to quash suspicions that pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had pre-programmed the jet to crash.

It does not, however, rule out the possibility that someone used the autopilot to send the plane south.

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