Jonti Roos Facebook page has disappeared. Roos the young woman who was once invited into the cockpit of a Malaysian Airlines flight in 2011 by ML370 co-pilot Fariq Ab Hamid.
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CNN:
Jonti Roos, who first told her story to the Australian Channel 9 program “A Current Affair,” said she is Facebook friends with Fariq Ab Hamid, the first officer on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Roos told CNN on Wednesday that she and a friend were waiting for a flight in 2011 when Hamid and another pilot asked them if they wanted to sit in the cockpit during the flight. Roos and her friend agreed and went to their assigned seats when they boarded. Later they were escorted to the cockpit, she said, and they were there for the rest of the flight.
Such a practice would be illegal on U.S. carriers, but not necessarily so on international ones, CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest said.
“A Current Affair” said Roos e-mailed its producers about the incident after she was on Facebook and recognized Hamid, 27, as one of the two pilots during a December 2011 flight from Phuket, Thailand, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The teens, who lived in South Africa at the time, were returning from a vacation, she said.
Hamid, who joined Malaysia Airlines in 2007, had compiled 2,763 flying hours by last Saturday, when the Boeing 777-200ER carrying 239 people went off radar screens.
“Yes, they were posing for pictures. I’d just like to make it very clear I don’t think they were distracted at all by posing for pictures. We did take pictures of them, but I don’t think it was a distraction,” Roos said by Skype from her current home in Melbourne, Australia.