It is still possible that their overall similarities are coincidental and that Zaharie didn’t intend his simulator flight as a practice run but had merely decided to fly someplace unusual.
Meanwhile, the search for the wreckage of the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has had no progress over the last 10 weeks because of atrocious weather conditions.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) made the confirmation in a recent statement issued to the Australian media.
According to the statement, the highly sensitive sonar equipment needs to comb deep crevices in the seabed can only be used in calm conditions, which is not possible at the moment because of the Australian winter, which started in June and will end in August.
The ATSB said that in the event of further poor weather or delays due to unforeseeable circumstances including equipment failure or crew incapacity, the search for the 120,000 square kilometer identified area shall go on after the winter months.
The identified search area is focused on a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean and has been going on for more than two years with still no concrete strides or clues that could point to the location of the wreckage of the missing airliner since March 8, 2014.