How were those two people allowed to board with stolen/lost passports?
Shouldn’t those passports have been flagged?
“How were those two people allowed to board with stolen/lost passports?”
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Don’t know, but I wonder if they were booked for first class seats—you know, up near the cockpit.
Travel by passengers with stolen identities can be prevented
INTERPOL's Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database currently contains 40 million records from 167 countries. Though it was searched more than 800 million times in 2013, with the United Arab Emirates alone making one in every eight searches as the third largest user, Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said not enough countries are making use of this critical global policing tool.
The bad news is that, despite being incredibly cost effective and deployable to virtually anywhere in the world, only a handful of countries are systematically using SLTD to screen travellers," he said.
"The result is a major gap in our global security apparatus that is left vulnerable to exploitation by criminals and terrorists."