MH370 Pilot Flew Suicide Route on Home Simulator -- NYMag
"New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances. "
On a related note:
Nobody seems to think that the aircraft was on auto-pilot from 01:21 to 02:22 (the time during which the transponders were off but radar has given a track) when it flew down to Penang and then turned north-west. So why the assumption that it was, a few hours later?