The co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reportedly tried to make a mobile phone call in the moments before the plane disappeared from radar screens.
In a frontpage story on Malaysia’s New Straits Times, the newspaper reported that Fariq Abdul Hamid “made a desperate call from his mobile phone as the plane was flying low near Penang, the morning it went missing”.
The story goes on to claim the call ended abruptly because the aircraft was quickly moving away from the cell tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one, but their source would not divulge the details of who the co-pilot was calling.
This news comes after 24 hours without any new acoustic signals being detected for flight MH370’s back box despite ping locator ships having arrived at site investigators believe the plane may have crashed into the sea.
