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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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.
Aw, hell...you’re right. My apologies.
Thailand?
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
//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.
why couldn’t the airline confirm those passports as stolen before boarding those passengers?
computer check? D’OH!
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
Miami area I believe.
Did he sneak off to meet someone somewhere?
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.
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.
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.
Our military would have known immediately if a missile was fired.
Judging by the map scale, Korea is at least 500 miles to the east of Bejing.
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
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.
Check out our Joint Space Command. Believe me, they know when and where a missile is fired.
That may be. BUT... would they necessarily tell the public ?
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?
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