CCTV Said to Show MH370 Pilot, Co-Pilot Before Boarding Plane

A video in wide circulation is said to show pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 as they passed through security at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, the day the Boeing 777 vanished en route to Beijing. This is the earliest copy of the video that we have located. The video has not been released officially, nor has anyone confirmed the video in circulation is legitimate.

This version was uploaded on March 9. We do not believe this is the original and have reached out to this uploader to ascertain where he may have found this version.

We found multiple copies of the video uploaded the following day. Most of the earliest copies were linked to Malaysian blogs, some in the Tamil language, followed by Chinese and Greek blogs and news sites. We also found some versions of the video embedded in aviation and Malaysian forums and Facebook, also dated March 10.

We continue to search for the video’s provenance. Credit: Sinthu Sinthu