Oneworld airline, Malaysian Airlines, while searching for their missing flight got confirmation about two European passengers that checked in on this flight in fact were not the holders of the passports used. Passports were stolen in Thailand based on a confirmation received by the Italian and Austrian embassies.
Questions have now been raised as to how Malaysian immigration officials did not realize these two passengers were traveling on a stolen passport.
It opens up a possible new scenario where terrorists stole passports to blend in and possibly attacked a plane in a suicide mission.
News this morning of pools of oil off the Vietnam coast – suggestive of a crash – are dreadful, but as NBC News reports, perhaps more crucially, U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet turned out not to be on the plane.