Fariq abdul hamid girlfriend

The girlfriend of the co-pilot on board the missing Malaysia airlines flight is holed up in a hotel with his family as she anxiously awaits news of the plane's fate. Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, was planning to marry his girlfriend Captain Nadira Ramli, 26, a fellow pilot from another airline. The Sabah-based Daily Express said that Miss Nadira, 26, has been given a month's leave as she awaits news of the flight's final destination.

Details of the relationship emerged as it was revealed flight MH's captain is a relative of Malaysia's jailed opposition leader.

Fariq Abdul Hamid was born on Tuesday, 1 April (age 27 years; at the time of the disappearance of MH) in Kelantan, Malaysia.

Intensive background checks on everyone aboard had turned up no-one else with a political or criminal motive to crash or hijack the plane. Interest in the co-pilot of the missing Malyasia airlines plane has been renewed after it was revealed this week that he was the last person to communicate from the cockpit after the communication system was cut off.

Mr Hamid met Miss Nadira when they studied together a t the Langkawi pilot school and the couple have known each other for nine years. Miss Nadira flies for Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia - Malaysia Airlines' fierce rival - and is the daughter of a senior Malaysia Airlines pilot, local media reports said. A relative in Kota Kinabalu, who declined to be named, told the newspaper that described the young pilot was calm in the face of adversity 'and a pillar of strength to Fariq's mother who had hardly slept for three days'.

Despite what has happened, she still has a glimmer of hope,' said the relative. Hamid had his reputation called into question by a South African woman who accused him of inviting her to join him in the cockpit for a journey in , in breach of security rules. Malaysia Airlines said it was 'shocked' by the reported security violation, but could not verify the claims.

The girlfriend of the co-pilot on board the missing Malaysia airlines flight is holed up in a hotel with his family as she anxiously awaits news of the plane's fate.

But those who knew him have described the son of a top state civil servant as a mild-mannered young man with a bright piloting future. Fariq regularly visited his neighbourhood mosque outside Kuala Lumpur where he also attended occasional Islamic courses, said Ahmad Sharafi Ali Asrah, the mosque's imam or spiritual leader, who called him 'a good boy'.

It chronicled his transition to piloting the Boeing after having completed training in a flight simulator. CNN correspondent Richard Quest called Fariq's technique 'textbook-perfect,' according to the network's website. Details of Fariq's personal life emerged as it was revealed today that his 'fanatical' co-pilot is related to Malaysia's jailed opposition leader.