Malaysia/MCMC
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission is a regulatory body which operates under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act (1998) and has since become responsible for administration of the Postal Services Act 2012 and the Digital Signature Act 1997.
The MCMC has expertise in a range of digital and radio communications technologies, media and social media platforms.
After Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on Saturday, 8 March 2014 the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) requested assistance from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission/
Initially, the MCMC was asked to provide information and analysis of the communications (mobile phone, social media, internet usage, email etc.) by the two pilots on MH370 and each of the ten cabin crew.
The focus was, of course, mainly on the Pilot-in-Command Captain Zaharie Shah, and the First Officer Fariq Bin Ab Hamid. Examples of the analysis follow:-
Fariq Bin Ab Hamid
Analysis of mobile phone records revealed a momentary connection between Fariq Hamid's mobile phone and the Celcom network as MH370 flew near Penang Island. And the MCMC was involved in a flight reconstruction exercise which tried to replicate the conditions under which such a connection could have occurred.
Captain Zaharie Shah
Analysis of Captain Shah's mobile phone call log revealed a 45-minute call on 2 February. The caller, a relative of Zaharie, was an aircraft engineer who also worked for Malaysia Airlines.
The MCMC also has a digital forensics department which analysed the disk drives removed from Zaharie's flight simulator.