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Expecting the worst: Families await news of missing Malaysian airliner (2 stolen passports)
CNN ^ | 3/8/14 | Mariano Castillo and Ralph Ellis

Posted on 03/08/2014 7:36:15 AM PST by jimbo123

The search for a commercial jetliner that seemingly vanished without warning between Malaysia and Vietnam continued into the night as dark fell on Asia, officials said.

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For instance, after the airline released a manifest, Austria denied that one of its citizens was onboard the flight as the list stated. The Austrian citizen was safe and sound, and his passport had been stolen two years ago, Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss told CNN.

Similarly, Italy's foreign ministry confirmed that no Italians were onboard MH370, even though an Italian was listed on the manifest. Malaysian officials said they were aware of reports that the Italian's passport was also stolen, but had not confirmed it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: austria; cesena; iran; islam; italy; louismaraldi; malaysia; mh370; muslims; nicolemeng; philipwood; religionofpieces; rop; vietnam; waronterror; yanzhang
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To: Mercat
Don’t need explosives if the pilot and co-pilot are willing to turn off the black box and dive into the ocean.

Highly unlikely. In that part of the world, Muslims are in the majority, most of them perfectly nice people with families and jobs. The passengers with stolen European passports are probably the guilty parties. Or some missiles fired from ships could have brought down the plane.

41 posted on 03/08/2014 8:53:46 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: airplaneguy

Aw, hell...you’re right. My apologies.


42 posted on 03/08/2014 8:54:58 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: jerod

Thailand?


43 posted on 03/08/2014 8:55:38 AM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: jerod

Hhmmm...A friend of mine went to Thailand several years ago...her traveling companion had her passport stolen....when she left it with the hotel front desk safe


44 posted on 03/08/2014 9:02:26 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: CondorFlight

//And nobody at passport control noticed they were stolen(they weren’t on a computer list somewhere)//

It is my understanding that most countries do not share stolen passport info, or do so only for a short time. Since the passports were stolen last August and 2 years ago, it is likely that the passport office wouldn’t have a flag on them.


45 posted on 03/08/2014 9:14:56 AM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: jimbo123

why couldn’t the airline confirm those passports as stolen before boarding those passengers?

computer check? D’OH!


46 posted on 03/08/2014 9:38:58 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: jerod

shoplifters and thieves steal farang passports at resorts, then resell them on black market
wanna guess how many passports stolen in Thailand and other parts of world every year?

almost impossible


47 posted on 03/08/2014 9:42:34 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: nascarnation

Miami area I believe.

Did he sneak off to meet someone somewhere?


48 posted on 03/08/2014 9:43:49 AM PST by mountainlion
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To: jerod
Here is an idea that will get the koom by ya humanitarian liberals the self hating jews and guilty whites up in arms not to mention the political skanks who encourage support and try to convince us on a daily basis that these animals are peace loving and a legitimate religion, every time we find proof and evidence pointing to an area, house, tent or mosque we make a parking lot out of it pronto! we make a world wide announcement that we will find the names of each of you and annihilate your entire generational family period end of story.
49 posted on 03/08/2014 10:06:04 AM PST by ronnie raygun (zippy the a##clown sez..............................)
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To: silverleaf

Yeah... Lot’s of people steal passports, but they usually don’t end up on planes the drop out of the sky. The missing passports are the key and they were obviously white. There are not a lot of Asian people with the name Luigi out there.


50 posted on 03/08/2014 11:01:33 AM PST by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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To: jimbo123

sadly the odd’s of having two stolen passports on a flight would lead one to beleive its terrorism. Very sad sitution. Now the world will have to deal with how to make sure passports that are stolen or lost are accounted for by all countries.


51 posted on 03/08/2014 11:10:34 AM PST by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
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To: jimbo123

sadly the odd’s of having two stolen passports on a flight would lead one to beleive its terrorism. Very sad sitution. Now the world will have to deal with how to make sure passports that are stolen or lost are accounted for by all countries.


52 posted on 03/08/2014 11:43:59 AM PST by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Our military would have known immediately if a missile was fired.


53 posted on 03/08/2014 12:03:50 PM PST by jch10 (John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
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To: nascarnation

Judging by the map scale, Korea is at least 500 miles to the east of Bejing.


54 posted on 03/08/2014 12:04:53 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: jerod

Not only is there a huge black market for stolen passports, European tourists in Thailand have reported being approached and asked to sell their passports (about $500) and then they can go to their embassy, claim it was stolen and get a new one. Supposedly backpackers can make a couple hundred bucks doing this. Those european guys better hope their passports were stolen - and not sold by them


55 posted on 03/08/2014 2:00:19 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: jch10
Our military would have known immediately if a missile was fired.

They can't even find the plane, and aren't sure where it was at.

PLUS, there were reports that NK did fire a missile in some kind of 'exercises' near to where the airliner was thought to be. We know that tensions between NK and SK are very high. NK has a huge number of anti-aircraft batteries. How easy would it be for a test missile to end up latching on to a stray airliner ?

Did the NK try to contact the airliner (like others did) and getting no response, assumed it was some kind of attack ?

For all we know there could have been multiple missiles fired the day this airliner disappeared. I don't see how our military would know , and if they did, they might have been told to keep it quiet for now.

56 posted on 03/08/2014 8:48:34 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I just messed up my tagline. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Check out our Joint Space Command. Believe me, they know when and where a missile is fired.


57 posted on 03/09/2014 7:46:36 AM PDT by jch10 (John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
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To: jch10
Believe me, they know when and where a missile is fired.

That may be. BUT... would they necessarily tell the public ?

58 posted on 03/09/2014 6:29:44 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I just messed up my tagline. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

No, they don’t make public statements often but the information that is not classified is made public soon after it happens. A plane with 239 passengers that was shot down would cause worldwide consequences. The NSC, the president, and the Pentagon would have been on alert. The UN and our allies would be informed. I have seen no sign of an international incident.

Who knows, with the clown in the White House?


59 posted on 03/10/2014 4:33:28 AM PDT by jch10 (John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
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