Zaharie’s transmissions were a bit unusual. Up in the cockpit that night, while First Officer Fariq flew the airplane, Captain Zaharie handled the radios. Most of the passengers were Chinese of the rest, 38 were Malaysian, and in descending order the others came from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan. They had 227 passengers to care for, including five children. In the cabin were 10 flight attendants, all of them Malaysian. To hear more feature stories, get the Audm iPhone app. In the cockpit, Fariq would have been deferential to him, but Zaharie was not known for being overbearing. He flew it frequently, and often posted to online forums about his hobby. In his first house he had installed an elaborate Microsoft flight simulator. He was married and had three adult children.

In Malaysian style, he was known by his first name, Zaharie. His trainer was the pilot in command, a man named Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who at 53 was one of the most senior captains at Malaysia Airlines. This was a training flight for him, the last one he would soon be fully certified. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH.

on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet.

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