Where do you hide it?" Malaysian authorities, who have been leading the investigation into Flight 370 crew members and other aspects of the flight, had the FBI examine the pilot's in-home flight simulator.
The maintenance messages have been a focus of the investigation into Flight 447 in the absence of the plane's "black boxes" — the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, which, along with the bulk of the plane's wreckage, have not been found.
The family life and psychological state of Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid have become part of the investigation into flight MH370.
An "expert" on Russian tabloid LifeNews said: "If the Netherlands does not take into account data found by Russia, then the investigation [into flight MH17] is doomed".
F.B.I. agents renewed their investigation of flight schools in earnest in 1998, after the bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Three months ago, after further objections in the US, but before our investigation, Secure Flight was suspended after costing the US taxpayer $144m.
As experts analyse the first piece of physical evidence from the missing aircraft, we recap the investigation into flight MH370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The agency began its investigation of flight schools at the request of three senators after a school in California had "provided foreigners with paperwork for student visas, with no intention of educating them," Michael writes.
The planes, A300's and A319's, were selected jointly by the F.A.A.; its French equivalent, the Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile; the National Transportation Safety Board, which is handling the investigation of Flight 587; and Airbus.
