[Simon_Gunson]

No way was this suicide. A suicidal pilot would do what Lubbitz did. Point it downhill ASAP and finish it quickly.

Thats assuming a suicidal pilot is willing for it to be deemed suicide. However there are many reasons why a pilot may want to hide a suicide - family reputation, insurance payout etc.

In your opinion, would a FO definitely be aware of this alternative way int the cockpit? And could this entry be 'locked" in some way by the operator?

Standard practice in every airline that all crew are inducted to handle specific aircraft types, pilots are type certified obviously and when I was in the industry, the F/As had some similar sort of qualification on type. The would include familiarisation with such aspects.

The moment a pilot locks out any other pilot from the cockpit, he marks himself as erratic and there is no turning back from that point, so I just don't buy your theories. Once committed to such a course of action there is every motive to follow through without delay. Certainly not a 7+ hour delay.

I happen to know many of Zaharie's family & friends personally. I never knew Zaharie himself, but his friends share with me many intimate matters. Enough to have the measure of the man. He was an extremely generous, philanthropic man and always thought of others before himself. He had no money worries and also had no insurance policy, so that really kills any motive for wanting to hide anything doesn't it?

Zahari during the course of his career had several quite challenging offers to work for other airlines. He was offered salary packages which left his MAS income for dust, yet turned them all down out of his unstinting loyalty to MAS. His home simulator was used extramurally to help train his student pilots develop & practice procedures. Fariq Hamid for example was a B767 F/O qualifying in the B777 with Ari as his training captain. This is not the profile of somebody so dysfunctional as Lubbitz.

Zahari was not the political extremist he was painted as either. His closest friend Peter Chong encouraged him to come to the trial of Anwar Ibrahim who was a cousin in law to be accurate. Politics were Peter's passion and the famous photo of Z in a tee shirt emblazoned with "democracy is dead" also showed my friend Peter standing beside Z. People have gotten it quite wrong. The trial may have annoyed Zahari but not to the extent of making him commit suicide.

Were suicide politically motivated, then an act of suicide would be driven by the need to send a political message wouldn't it?

So where was the suicide note?
Where was the self eulogy?
Not even a prepared text message sent before they rolled down the runway...Nothing