Posted on 03/09/2014 2:33:12 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
SEPANG: The two impostors who travelled on the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 using fake passports were captured on closed-circuit television (CCTV) at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the CCTV recordings would be used in the department’s investigations.
“We have CCTV recordings from the point of check-in right up to departure point,” Azharuddin said in a press conference here, Sunday.
Italian Luigi Maraldi, whose name is on the manifest, was not on the missing MAS flight.
According to news reports from Italy which quoted its Foreign Ministry, Luigi Maraldi’s passport was stolen last August while he was in Thailand.
Meanwhile, London’s Daily Mirror reported that a second passenger was also using a stolen passport.
Austrian Christan Kozel has been confirmed as safe and well by authorities.
He told Austrian newspaper De Standard that his passport was stolen when he visited Thailand two years ago.
I wonder now how many more passports were stolen two years ago in Thailand?
Well that debris field gives clear evidence of an accidental explosion of fuel vapor in a near-empty fuel tank set off by some random short-circuit in an electrical device.
Case settled.
looks like every passenger and two pieces of carry on each.
Really, did you land at Sheremetyov?
I was through there many times in the 90s and it was a piece of cake. Though the airport was in very sad shape until the late 90’s.
Yes, but it was earlier in the 80’s when it was still the USSR.
"Mr Maraldi revealed how he arrived in Phuket on March 1 last year for a two-week holiday, but lost his passport in a deal gone wrong at a Patong motorcycle rent shop, Phuket Wan Tourism News reported.
He said the woman at the shop had told him she gave his passport to another man who said Mr Maraldi was his “husband” and he was only able to return home using a temporary travel document.
He said he only learned of the Malaysian Airlines plane going missing when his family called to check whether he was the same Luigi Maraldi that Italian officials told them had been on the flight.
>"Malaysia’s transport minister says an investigation has been launched to determine the identities of four people on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet who were traveling with stolen passports or suspicious papers."The linked article continues: "The U.S. is sending a team of experts to help with the investigation into the missing aircraft. U.S. officials say they are still looking at the disappearance as if it is an accident, but Malaysian officials say they are not ruling anything out."
accidental explosion of fuel vapor...I wonder how many others remember this governmental cover-up?
Should be easy to trace the two perps back to their Gitmo release photos.
Funny.
But Chinese usually went through Angel Island in San Francisco.
Was passport control in the basement when you were there? It was when I went...first time was 96 I think...the airport had cracked flooring and stairways taped off for safety reasons...it was very dim, dirty and a mess. By 1999 it was a completely different place.
Just to clarify a few points...
You don’t need to apply for a tourist or business visa into China “weeks” in advance. A week will do as long as a holiday doesn’t ensue.
Secondly, saying “you actually have to surrender your passport” while accurate, is phrased as though this is unusual.
ANY country which requires an actual visa before entry - not visa-free countries which simply stamp your entry and exit - requires that you submit your passport with the application, so they can place the issued visa physically in your passport.
I have traveled to Brazil, Russia and China and they all require actual visas placed in your passport before traveling to the country.You turn in your passport with the application documents.
There are several countries which require visas but issue these visas on arrival. If going to Australia, you can apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization which is then tied to your passport number and allows entry when you arrive at passport control.
What? The last movie you saw was "Sound of Music?"
FYI, Today's Europe is very multi-racial, just as we are, with ethnic Africans, Chinese, other Asians, Arabs from many countries, all carrying EU or National Passports. Many immigrants have legally changed names to match their new country. Also, in Catholic countries, (Ireland, Austria, Italy, sorta France) many families have adopted children from overseas missions and given them their names.
As far as fake passports go, give me your picture and I can get one in MacArthur Park in LA. A really, really good one: $1500. Might work once, which is all a terr sometimes needs.
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