I read that not all countries subscribe to the Interpol database that automatically checks passport numbers.
It’s very simple - when I had my passport stolen a few years ago, I was issued a new one with a new number by the US Embassy in the country where I was at that time, and the old number immediately entered the stolen passports database and would have turned up immediately if anyone had tried to use it.
But you have to consult the database, and perhaps they didn’t do so - until after the plane disappeared.
This tells me that there was a catastrophic failure at multiple security points.
The pports were not ever checked more than visually - not ever! Not at check in, not at security, not at the gate... and those are just the points I know about.,
stinks
If they did not run the pports thru the system, how did they know, for example, the pport number? What did they do, write it down on a piece of scratch paper as the individual checked in?
I the pport was ever run thru the system, it would be caught. And you have to run it to check in at least. On int'l flights this is a big deal. How it could not be done is just unthinkable.
But if it was never run thru, how did they have such info to run after the fact?