Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador said the police had probed the MH370 tragedy from various angles but none of the theories could be confirmed to be the cause of the tragedy.
Abdul Hamid (above) was asked to comment on Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott's claims that "highest levels" of the Malaysian government believed from very early on that the MH370 tragedy was a murder-suicide plot.
"The problem is we haven't found the plane.
"I don't know who are these 'highest levels'. I was also involved in the probe and from our side, we probed from all angles [...] terrorism, hijacking, the use of high-end technology to hijack the plane and so on.
"So there were many facts collected. Let's say if the plane is found, we will reopen the investigation," Abdul Hamid told a press conference at the Police Training Centre in Kuala Lumpur today.
In a documentary entitled MH370: The Untold Story which is set to air in Australia tonight, Abbott (below) said it was made "crystal clear" to him within a week that the aircraft was almost certainly deliberately downed by the pilot, according to a report in The Australian.
Asked if he could confirm the murder-suicide theory, Hamid said he couldn't comment until the plane is found but explained that he had given then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak the freedom to share information with the media.
"I gave him as the prime minister the freedom to share with the media. It's up to him to discuss with the country's senior officers.
"As for the police, from the law point of view, I couldn't comment (on the murder-suicide theory) until the plane is found," said the former Special Branch deputy director.
MH370, piloted by Malaysian Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, disappeared on March 8, 2014.
"Good night. Malaysian three-seven-zero," were the captain's last words to air traffic control before the plane dropped off the radar at 1:21am.
Satellite data showed the plane then veered off course, making a series of unscheduled turns over the Strait of Malacca and then headed towards the Southern Indian Ocean.
To date, only three wing fragments, known as flaperons, have been washed up and confirmed to be from MH370.
The disappearance of the Boeing 777 passenger jetliner, which vanished from the radar screen while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, has continued to baffle aviation experts, family members, friends and people from all over the world.
The last search exercise to locate the aircraft ended in May 2018 when a US-based exploration company Ocean Infinity failed to locate the ill-fated aircraft after searching over 112,000 sq/km of ocean floor for more than three months.
In July 2018, the "MH370 Safety Investigation Team", in its 449-page report, concluded they were unable to determine the real cause of the disappearance of the aircraft but did not rule out the possibility that "unlawful interference" by a third party had caused the incident.
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