Investigators say they are looking into the background of one of the passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane who claimed he had worked as a flight engineer.
Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat said on social media sites he worked for a Swiss-based private jet charter company.
The 29-year-old's apparent experience means he would have a knowledge of in-flight computer systems and be able to carry out repairs.
However, as an engineer specialising in executive jets, he would not necessarily have had the skills required to divert and fly a Boeing 777.
A senior police official with knowledge of the investigation said: "The focus is on anyone who might have had aviation skills on that plane."
The hunt for the missing plane was expanded significantly over the weekend, as the investigation moved from shallow seas to large tracts of land in 11 countries, as well as deep, remote ocean trenches.
It is thought the aircraft flew for up to seven hours after vanishing from radar on March 8, when its communication systems were deliberately switched off.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board Some 25 countries are now involved in the search for the jet, which emitted its final 'ping' as it travelled along one of two air corridors going north and south from the sea off Malaysia.
It has been claimed the plane could have landed at one of more than 600 runways spread across at least a dozen countries.
Researchers at WNYC searched for runways with a length of at least 0.95 miles (1.52km) within a radius of 2,530 miles (4,070km) from the aircraft's last known position.
The missing plane could have landed at hundreds of locations. Pic: WNYC Some 634 runways, stretching from the India-Pakistan border to the northeast coast of Australia, matched those requirements - many of them in remote, inaccessible places.
Michael McCaul, chairman of the US Homeland Security Committee, said hijackers may have landed the plane and be planning to use it "as a cruise missile" in a 9/11-style terror attack.
Some experts believe the plane is most likely to have flown southwest towards the Indian Ocean.
A northwesterly route would have taken it through numerous national airspaces in an area monitored extensively by satellites, they say.
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