Malaysian Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said no pilot in his company's stable made contact with MH370 pilots.
 
He said this today when asked about a NST report quoting an anonymous Boeing 777 pilot which allegedly made contact with MH370 on the emergency frequency.
 
According to the NST report, the anonymous pilot said his Narita bound plane was asked, presumably by Vietnamese air traffic controllers, to make contact with MH370 to establish the latter's position.
 
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they had transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
 
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
 
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
 
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told NST , adding that those on the same frequency would have heard the exchange.

Radio silence

 
The pilot initially thought nothing of it as losing contact was normal, until it was established that MH370 never landed.
 
The pilot added that had MH370 been in trouble, he would have heard a distress call, as he was only 30 minutes ahead of the plane.
 
"Following the silence, a repeat request was made by the Vietnamese authorities to try establishing contact with them."
 
MH370 is a Boeing 777-200ER went missing while en route to Beijing from KLIA. After taking off at 12.41am, air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane at about 1.30am, after entering Vietnamese airspace.
 
It was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30am Malaysian time yesterday.
 
Thus far, there is absolutely no sign of the aircraft although it is presumed by Vietnamese authorities to have crashed south of the country's southern coast.
 
About a dozen countries are currently involved in search and rescue operations.