Pilot of Flight 370 was a supporter of Malaysian opposition leader Abdullah Ibrahim . Anwar was sentenced to 5 years in jail hours before the plane vanished . When asked at a news conference Tuesday about the Anwar angle , Malaysia 's Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said that the issue was above politics , and that speculation linking the plane 's disappearance to Anwar 's sentencing had come from foreign media , not by his government . Some have speculated the plane could have been hijacked in response to the sentence . Anwar said this is done to deflect from ` ` incompetent '' handling of it .
Pilot of Flight 370 was a supporter of Malaysian opposition leader Abdullah Ibrahim . Anwar was sentenced to 5 years in jail hours before the plane vanished . Some have speculated the plane could have been hijacked in response to the sentence . Anwar said this is done to deflect from ` ` incompetent '' handling of it .