America’s FBI will comb through the hard drive taken from personal flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which went missing on 8 March with 239 people on board.  Some data had been deleted prior to 3 February, and the FBI will try to recover it.

Malaysian authorities caution that deleting files is not necessarily suspicious, particularly if it were done merely to free up memory space.  The FBI office in Kuala Lumpur issued a statement reading that the US “continues to engage with appropriate Malaysian authorities and provide support where necessary to the Malaysian government in their investigation of the missing aircraft.” 

The frustration of waiting is getting to some of the families of the 239 people on the missing planes.  A group of families from China forced their way into the briefing room in Kuala Lumpur, angrily demanded answers and accused Malaysian government officials of a cover-up.  After about five minutes of this, security guards dragged the emotional families out of the room.

Meanwhile, the primary search area seems to have shrunk to a patch of the Indian Ocean off of Australia’s Southwest Coast.  America’s ABC News reports that British and American aviation officials have refined the search area based on the satellite “pings” having far more information that was previously thought.