MH370 Crew/Data Matching

MH370 Crew: Data Matching

There are several sources of information about the crew on-board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Media Statement: Pilots

Malaysia Airlines' 3rd Media Statement at 10:30 AM Saturday, 8 March 2014 identified the two pilots:-

The flight was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian aged 53. He has a total flying hours of 18,365 hours. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981. First officer, Fariq Ab.Hamid, a Malaysian, is aged 27. He has a total flying hours of 2,763 hours. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 2007.

Source: Malaysia Airlines MAS-MS3-001-ZH ‎

Passenger Manifest: MH 370 tech & Cabin Crew

The Passenger Manifest released by Malaysia Airlines at 7:20 pm Saturday, 8 March 2014 with the 5th Media Statement listed 'MH 370 tech & Cabin Crew' by name and nationality.

In this document Tech Crew refers to the aircraft pilots or Flight Crew. The list does not identify the role of each person.

MH 370 TECH & CABIN CREW

NO	NAME	NATIONALITY
1	ZAHARIE BIN AHMAD SHAH (TECH CREW)	Malaysian
2	FARIQ BIN AB HAMID (TECH CREW)	Malaysian
3	PATRICK FRANCIS GOMES	Malaysian
4	ANDREW NARI	Malaysian
5	GOH SOCK LAY	Malaysian
6	TAN SER KUIN	Malaysian
7	WAN SWAID BIN WAN ISMAIL	Malaysian
8	JUNAIDI BIN MOHD KASSIM	Malaysian
9	MOHD HAZRIN BIN MOHAMED HASNAN	Malaysian
10	NG YAR CHIEN	Malaysian
11	FOONG WAI YUENG	Malaysian
12	TAN SIZE HIANG	Malaysian

Source: MH 370 Passenger Manifest, Malaysia Airlines, 8 March 2014 MAS-DOC-001 ‎

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API Data: Flight Crew

A passenger manifest released in Beijing also listed the names of the crew on-board MH370. Additional detail includes Passport Number, Gender and Date of Birth. The document is only available as a series of images. The relevant section is shown below, followed by a transcription:-

Source: Beijing International Airport. Published by SAYS (Malaysia) SAYSMY-002 ‎

The table below contains the data transcribed from the Beijing version of the passenger manifest. Several changes have been made during the process of transcription from the API data:-

1. Column 2 is the passport number, which is not relevant here, and has not been transcribed.
2. Column 6 contains either a 1 or 2 which correlates with a code for gender where 1 = male and 2 = female.
3. Column 7 is Date of Birth in Year/Month/Day format. For ease of reading this has been transcribed in the format YYYY/MM/DD.
4. The order of first and last names for Patrick Gomes has been changed to be consistent with the Malaysia Airlines Flight Manifests.

Additional Columns

1. The numbers 1 and 2 have been converted to male and female gender in an additional column.
2. Using the date of birth provided here, each person's age in years has been calculated as it would have been on Saturday, 8 March 2014 and placed in an additional column headed Actual Age.

MH370 Flight Crew and Cabin Crew based on API Data

		Nationality	Name		Date of Birth	Gender	Actual Age
1	14	MYS	FARIQ BIN AB HAMID	1	1987/04/01	Male	26
2	14	MYS	ZAHARIE BIN AHMAD SHAH	1	1961/07/31	Male	52
3	14	MYS	FOONG WAI YUENG	2	1975/06/27	Female	38
4	14	MYS	GOH SOCK LAY	2	1969/07/29	Female	44
5	14	MYS	PATRICK FRANCIS GOMES	1	1959/07/23	Male	54
6	14	MYS	MOHD HAZRIN BIN MOHAMED HASNAN	1	1980/06/30	Male	33
7	14	MYS	JUNAIDI BIN MOHD KASSIM	1	1973/06/12	Male	40
8	14	MYS	ANDREW NARI	1	1965/02/21	Male	49
9	14	MYS	NG YAR CHIEN	2	1972/06/22	Female	41
10	14	MYS	TAN SER KUIN	2	1972/12/12	Female	41
11	14	MYS	TAN SIZE HIANG	1	1968/06/08	Male	45
12	14	MYS	WAN SWAID BIN WAN ISMAIL	1	1972/08/08	Male	41

Source: MH370 Passenger Manifest based on Advanced Passenger Information (API)
Released at Beijing International Airport. Published by SAYS (Malaysia) SAYSMY-002 ‎

h5>Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018: Profiles

The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 included profiles for the Flight Crew and Cabin Crew in the Safety Investigation Report at Section 1.5 PERSONNEL INFORMATION, but this Section refers to each person by role only, and names were not provided.

The following table has been compiled from the information in Section 1.5.

Crew Profiles Summary

Source	Role	Gender	Age
1.5.3 Pilot-in-Command	Pilot in Command (PIC)	Male	53
1.5.4 First Officer	First Officer (FO)	Male	27
1.5.6 Cabin Crew and Personal Profiles
1) Inflight Supervisor (IFS)	Inflight Supervisor (IFS)	Male	55
2) Chief Steward (CS)	Chief Steward (CS)	Male	49
3) Chief Stewardess (CSS)	Chief Stewardess (CSS)	Female	49
4) Leading Steward (LS)	Leading Steward (LS)	Male	42
5) Leading Stewardess (LSS)	Leading Stewardess (LSS)	Female	42
6) Flight Stewardess (FSS) 1	Flight Stewardess (FSS) 1	Female	42
7) Flight Stewardess (FSS) 2	Flight Stewardess (FSS) 2	Female	39
8) Flight Steward (FS) 1	Flight Steward (FS) 1	Male	46
9) Flight Steward (FS) 2	Flight Steward (FS) 2	Male	41
10) Flight Steward (FS) 3	Flight Steward (FS) 3	Male	34

Source: Data extracted from Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018
Section 1.5 PERSONNEL INFORMATION

Data Matching: Names and official Profiles

The Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 in Section 1.5 PERSONNEL INFORMATION provides summary profiles for each of the crew on-board flight MH370 - without any names. The task of linking each profile to a particular person is called data-matching. The process is described in this article MH370 Crew/Data Matching.

MH370 Flight and Inflight Crew

Staff No.	Name	Rank	Age	Marital Status	Date of Joining MAS	Aeronautical Experience
97277	Zaharie Bin Ahmad Shah	Captain	53	Married with 3 Children	June 15, 1981	ATP with 18423:40 hours (8659 on type)
1172449	Fariq Bin Ab Hamid	First Officer	27	Single (Girlfriend FO for AirAsia)	July 23, 2007	ATP with 2813:42 hours (39 on type)
78888	Patrick Francis Gomes	Inflight Supervisor	55	Married with 4 children	November 19, 1979	35 years
146258	Andrew Nari	Chief Steward	49	Married with 2 children	November 13, 1989	25 years
148604	Goh Sock Lay	Chief Stewardess	49	Married with 1 child	January 02, 1990	24 years
218224	"Christine" Tan Ser Kuin	Leading Stewardess	42	Married with 2 children	August 18, 1992	22 years
280489	Wan Swaid Bin Wan Ismail	Leading Steward	42	Married with 4 children	October 05, 1995	19 years
1006479	Junaidi Bin Mohd Kassim	Flight Steward	41	Married with 2 children	February 13, 1997	17 years
1087698	Mohd "Rain" Hazrin Bin Mohamed Hasnan	Flight Steward	34	Married with 2 children	September 27, 2001	13 years
225412	Ng Yar Chien	Flight Stewardess	42	Married with 2 children	January 18, 1992	22 years
301366	Foong Wai Yueng	Flight Stewardess	39	Married with 2 children	April 16, 1996	18 years
392841	"David" Tan Size Hiang	Flight Steward	46	Married with 3 children	April 16, 1996	18 years

  All members of the crew were Malaysian Nationals.

Source: MH370 Discussion Forum (Posted 15 April 2015 by 'Accident Investigator')
Domain was mh370forum.com but de-registered sometime after 2018.
Note: Seems accurate but unable to verify all data.

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The Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 was released by the Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 in July 2018. More Info

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