Who was MH370 pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah? Inside the affluent life of the aircraft captain at the helm of the missing plane

Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, was pilot of the fateful Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, abbreviated to MH370, which went missing on March 8, 2014.

MH370 was scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing but dropped off radars shortly after takeoff. All 239 people on board were lost.

A decade on, the BBC have looked back at how the plane went missing in their documentary Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370.

But what of its veteran pilot who had thousands of hours of flight time under his belt, and…