PersonOfficial finding
Fariq Abdul Hamid
First officer · MH370
First officer
Not heard on the last ATC handover. His mobile registered with a Penang tower at 17:52:27 UTC, corroborating the westbound primary-radar track. About 2,763 hours; this was a 777 training sector.
First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, was completing 777 training. He is not identified as the speaker of the last radio call. The Penang cell-site event is a proximity corroboration of the military track, not evidence of a phone call from the cockpit.
Sources
- Malaysian Safety Investigation Report 2018
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PersonOfficial finding
Zaharie Ahmad Shah
Pilot in command · MH370
TimelineOfficial finding7 Mar 2014 17:52 UTC
First officer’s phone registers at Penang
17:52:27 UTC
LocationOfficial finding
Penang
Westbound primary-radar track · FO phone register
TimelineConfirmed7 Mar 2014 16:42 UTC
MH370 departs Kuala Lumpur
16:42 UTC · 00:42 MYT 8 March 2014
DocumentOfficial finding8 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
Factual Information — MH370
Malaysian investigation team · interim releases 2014–2015
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