Last month, the ATSB publicly issued a statement to quash the pilot suicide theory that came out in recent reports.
Based on an information by the FBI, Malaysian pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah used to record simulated flight sessions on an elaborate home-built flight simulator.
Based on the six deleted data points recovered by the FBI from the Microsoft Flight Simulator X program in the weeks before the plane went missing, the simulated airplane’s altitude, speed, the direction of flight, and key parameters at a given point in time were indicated.
The deleted data points show a flight departing Kuala Lumpur and then headed northwest over the Malacca Strait, then turned left and headed south over the Indian Ocean continuing on the same stretch over the sea until fuel exhaustion.
Investigation officials believed that Flight MH370 followed a similar route, based on signals the plane transmitted to a satellite after ceasing communications and veering off course.
But the actual and the simulated flights were not identical, though, with the simulated endpoint some 900 miles from the remote patch of southern ocean area where officials believe the plane went down.
ATSB said that there is no evidence to support such claim, alluding that the simulator data is just a coincidence and not a deliberately planned murder or suicide.