Sydney/Singapore — The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was "initially similar" to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. The details were contained in a 440-page final report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau on the unsuccessful search for flight MH370. The disappearance of the Boeing 777 on March 8 2014 on a flight to Beijing from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The report concluded that the reasons for the loss of the aircraft could not be established with certainty until the aircraft was found. "It is almost inconceivable and certainly societally unacceptable in the modern aviation era … for a large aircraft to be missing and for the world not to know with certainty what became of the aircraft and those on board," the bureau said. The a...
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