MH370 search: Co-pilot did not attempt mid-air phone call, says Hisham


Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. - EPA

KLUANG: Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has refuted a report which claimed that Fariq Abdul Hamid, the co-pilot of the MH370 aircraft, had made a telephone call when it was flying low near Penang.

He said by right, he should have been aware of it (the phone call) earlier, if the claim was true.

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