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Malaysia Airlines 370 lost contact day 13 news: Ma seeks help from US FBI to recover flight simulato

the U.S. Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) is helping Malaysian authorities analyze data from the home flight simulator of Malaysia Airlines' lost flight mh370, a US official said on Wednesday.

Khalid Abu Bakar, Malaysia's police chief, said a survey of the flight simulator at zaharie Ahmad Shah's home showed that the data records were deleted on February 3. Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared on March 8.

"Experts are investigating which data records have been cleared," he told a news conference. '

Malaysian authorities have provided the FBI with electronic data of the two pilots on flight mh370, including data from the hard disk of the pilot's flight simulator zahari, and electronic media used by deputy captain fariq Abdul Hamid, a US law enforcement official told Reuters.

The official said he was unable to confirm that some of the data in the flight simulator had been deleted, stressing that the FBI analysis could not guarantee any new clues.

US investigators have been frustrated in recent days as Malaysian authorities have not asked them for more help. The FBI has extensive experience in investigating plane crashes.

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Malaysia's acting Minister of transport, hisan muddin, said: the experts are examining the simulator, hoping to recover the deleted data. He did not specify what kind of data was deleted. However, he stressed that the captain should be considered innocent until proven guilty. Meanwhile, the captain's family is cooperating with the authorities' investigation. The deletion of data is not necessarily suspicious, he said, because the deletion is likely to increase the storage space in the computer.

A U.S. Justice Department official told Reuters that Malaysian authorities provided the FBI with information about the captain and co pilot, including data and information connected to a hard disk on the flight simulator at the captain's home and the electronic media used by the co pilot.

However, the official stressed that the FBI investigators' analysis does not necessarily lead to more clues about the missing flights. The White House spokesman also said on the 19th that the Malaysian authorities are also contacting the US aviation and traffic accident investigation agencies.