One of the best recent write-ups on what likely happened and the different possible scenarios. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-y...
Do you have a link to the leaked report containing the deleted simulation?
From Parent’s link:
> In 2014, a leaked Malaysian police report revealed that among Zaharie’s saved flight simulator sessions was a very odd route which ran up the Strait of Malacca, turned south after passing Sumatra, and then flew straight down into the Southern Indian Ocean before terminating in the vicinity of the seventh arc.
> Not only did the track resemble MH370’s actual flight path, it also contained a number of other intriguing details.
>For example, the track wasn’t really a track — rather, it was a series of brief clips lasting no more than a few seconds each, indicating that Zaharie had programmed it in advance then skipped along it to various points without actually playing through the entire hours-long flight.
——— From op’s link:
> The pilot of MH370 generally avoided official flight routes from 18:00 UTC (2 am AWST) onwards but used waypoints to navigate on unofficial flight paths in the Malacca Strait, around Sumatra and across the Southern Indian Ocean. The flight path follows the coast of Sumatra and flies close to Banda Aceh Airport,”