Missing jet’s co-pilot set to wed sweetheart

The co-pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was set to marry a fellow pilot from another airline when his plane disappeared.

Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, was planning to marry his girlfriend, Captain Nadira Ramli, 26, who works for AirAsia. The pair studied together at the Langkawi pilot school and have known each other for nine years.

The Star reports that Ramli is holed up in Kuala Lumpur, where she is apparently being “a pillar of strength” for Hamid’s mother and encouraging other friends and family not to watch the news because of all the misinformation that is coming out.

“Nadira is positive about the incident and told her family not to listen to the TV. Despite what has happened, she still has a glimmer of hope,” a relative of hers said.

Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Ramli has reportedly been given a month’s leave from her job at AirAsia as she deals with her fiance’s disappearance.

Interest in Hamid has grown this week as investigators revealed that he was the last person to communicate from the cockpit before communication was cut off.

His reputation has been called into question by a South African woman who says he invited her to join him in the cockpit for a journey in 2011, in breach of security rules.

Malaysia Airlines said it was “shocked” by the reported security violation, but could not verify the claims.

This article originally appeared on News.com.au.