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'Suspect was not interested in flight training'
SYDNEY, DEC. 8. The man arrested in Mumbai for allegedly planning September 11-type terrorist strikes in India and two other countries was ``completely switched off'' during pilot training, according to his Australian flying instructor.
Mohammed Afroze Abdul Razzak's instructor at Melbourne's Moorabbin airport, Mr. Brad Fuller, said that his student left without completing the course for a commercial pilot licence, according to Australian media reports.
``We would be flying and I would tell him how to do something, but he would just gaze out of the window looking at the view,'' Mr. Fuller told the Weekend Australian. He said Razzak's behaviour was like he ``completely switched off in the cockpit''.
``He wasn't interested in learning to fly. He struck me as a very dumb student. To put it bluntly, he hardly said anything. He was very quiet. He didn't strike me as unpleasant. He was courteous but distant and a day-dreamer,'' the instructor said.
Media reports said Mr. Fuller became numb after hearing the report that his flying student was a suspected suicide pilot.
Razzak told Mr. Fuller that he was sent to Australia to learn flying by his parents so that he could get a job with an Indian airline.
- PTI
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