Indian Ocean sites among runways on captain's simulator

A senior police official with direct knowledge of the investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner said that the captain's personal flight simulator included runways in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Diego Garcia and southern India, Reuters has reported.

The report also said that US and European runways were also on the home simulator of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of Flight MH370.

The officer said that such flight simulators show hundreds or sometimes even thousands of runways. Investigators are trying to determine which runways were frequently used and which routes Zaharie had been assigned before. This will take time, the report said.