\\\'Missing Malaysia jet\\\'s pilot joked with female passengers in cockpit at 30,000ft\\\'

One of the pilots of the missing Malaysia jet liked to entertain female passengers in the cockpit, it emerged on Tuesday. First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid invited two blondes into the cockpit of the Flight MH370 when it was flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The Malaysian Airlines said it was “shocked” by pictures of Pilot Fariq posing with two South Africans who said he smoked on the flight deck and allowed them to stay during take-off and landing, against airline rules. The mystery surrounding the fate of the Boeing 777/200ER deepened after military sources said it may have flown 350 miles after it last transmitted its location. Four days after the plane disappeared on its journey from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing, with 239 passengers and crew, the search area was extended. Radar readings suggested the plane had turned and flown west with its transponder and other tracking systems switched off. The airlines said it was “taking very seriously” an account from Jonti Roos, a former passenger who said that Pilot Hamid invited her and a friend on to the flight deck of another Malaysia Airlines aircraft, flying from Phuket, Thailand to Kuala Lumpur in 2011. She said that he had spent much of the journey smoking and chatting to his guests. Roos said that she and Jaan Maree were picked out of the boarding queue to join the pilots for the one-hour flight, and sat in jump seats in the cockpit during take-off and landing, against airline regulations. She told Channel 9 television in Australia: “Throughout the whole flight they were talking to us, they were actually smoking throughout the flight, which I don’t think they’re allowed to be doing and they were taking photos with us in the cockpit while they were flying the plane.” She claimed that for much of the trip the pilots were not even facing the front of the plane. Roos said that while the pilots were “possibly a little bit sleazy” and invited the women to stay with them in Kuala Lumpur, she felt they were in control of the aircraft. After MH370 disappeared on Saturday, the authorities said it was lost about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, according to The Telegraph.