Khalid was responding to a report made by cable news network CNN, claiming that the home flight simulator belonging to MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had a route plotted into it that ended in the Indian Ocean.

“No investigations can be concluded without the black box. Everything is mere speculation until the black box is found.

“We have not shared the details of our investigations with anyone, not even foreign agencies. Simply put, the investigations cannot end until the black box is found,” Khalid told reporters at a press conference in Putrajaya today.

Earlier today, spokesman for the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), Scott Mashford told CNN in an email, that the MH370 captain’s flight simulator showed someone had plotted a course to the southern Indian Ocean. He however did not elaborate on who may have plotted that particular route.

According to the report by CNN, the JACC maintained that the so-called “seventh arc” search area in the southern Indian Ocean, calculated using satellite communications, aircraft systems, data modelling and accident investigation in collaboration with a number of governmental bodies and private companies, remained the best guess of where the plane ultimately went down.

“For the purposes of defining the underwater search area, the relevant facts and analysis most closely match a scenario in which there was no pilot intervening in the latter stages of the flight,” the latest JACC media release said.

“The simulator information shows only the possibility of planning. It does not reveal what happened on the night of the aircraft’s disappearance, nor where the aircraft is located.”

MH370 disappeared more than two years ago on March 8, 2014. It disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from the KL International Airport (KLIA) on its way to Beijing, China. The aircraft has yet to be located despite an international search effort.