Missing MH370: Pilot shared his flight simulator passion online


Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

HONG KONG/TOKYO: Some trace of the passion that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had for flying can be found in the trail of e-mail exchanges and online message board posts that detail the Malaysia Airlines pilot's construction of a state-of-the-art flight simulator at home.

Now the stack of computer monitors, graphics cards and software he painstakingly sourced and improved is being pored over by investigators trying to make sense of the disappearance more than two weeks ago of the passenger jet he was piloting.

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