Airport security is a total joke from the no-fly lists to the gropers.
Plane for parts, people for ransom, those who can’t be ransomed sold into slavery. Counties on the boycott, by the US, list also need airline parts.
This is starting to sound more and more like a terrorist attack. I suppose it could have been a sudden catastrophic mechanical failure or explosion. Who knows?
BBC is reporting that the holders of two stolen passports bought their tickets together.
“We do not want to target only the four;”
...could that be because they’re of the “religion of pieces” and profiling just isn’t fair?
I know about the Austrian who reported his passport stolen two years ago.
I know about the Italian who reported his stolen last August.
What is supposed to happen? I suppose the issuing country puts out a bulletin saying that Italian passport # 12345678 to Luigi Maldagi (I forget his real name) was stolen.
Are the airport ticket agents supposed to run a background check on every passenger's passport? That seems too much?
What, then?
Soetoro’s Amish sons AGAIN ...
I’m not disputing that this could have been terrorism, although now they are saying the flight may have turned back which, to me, would indicate it had some problems (could still be terrorists I suppose).
But where are the credit takers? In a case like this doesn’t the group claim credit for what it did and give its motivation?
Conflicting report from Reuters:
“Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said authorities were also checking the identities of two other passengers, other than the men on the Austrian and Italian passports. Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, the head of the department of civil aviation, later told reporters only two passengers were being investigated”.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140309
The pilots who heard a transmission say that there was mumbling and interference. Interference not defined or explained.
radio interference or something else.
It seems to me that if you cant see parts of the plane at this point...it was an in the air explosion.
Maybe I’m wrong, but they seemed to know early on that their was a passport issue. It sounded like they put everyone on board then decided to verify the right people belonged to the passports.
The four comprise two travellers with European passports, possibly Ukrainian, in addition to two travelling on stolen Austrian and Italian passports, the sources said.
“We have deployed our investigators to look through all the security camera footage. Also, they are interviewing immigration officials who let the imposters through,” said one official with direct knowledge of the investigation.
“Early indications show some sort of a security lapse, but I cannot say any further right now.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-missing-jet-airport-security-breach-probed-1.2565773
Theories abound, so what the heck. Here’s mine.
The two people boarding with false passports that we know about were not Asian, unless the ticket sellers and the people checking boarding were complete morons. Travelers with names like Luigi Maraldi, the Italian and and an Austrian with the last name Kozel would not be Asiatic in appearance. Some people have dismissed the stolen passports as ‘a possibility’ given that stolen passports are supposedly common. This news of two other passengers being checked out is making the ‘everybody’ has stolen passports theory more unlikely.
So the group who did board this plane were internationally connected, making the use of sophisticated materials more likely. A plastic gun, or some explosive device was smuggled aboard and there were two attackers, and maybe four. The stewardesses would be the first people they approached and held hostage and they may have forced the stewardesses to contact the cabin and tell them to maintain silence. The next command would be for the pilots to return to Malaysia (reports of the plane turning back are already out there). The passengers probably noticed some sort of commotion ensuing and as has been the case many times since 911, they revolted. This lead to one of the hijacker’s setting off a bomb or possibly shooting a hole through the fuselage with some sort of weapon. Thus catastrophic failure. The actual circumstances will never be known, but terrorism is the obvious cause.
Why has there been no group claiming responsibility? The operation was obviously a failure, because they were returning to Malaysia for some reason. The hijacking may have only been one component in a wider attack and because it failed the other shoes didn’t drop. The remaining terrorist are now in a state of confusion and probably dispersing or regrouping for plan ‘B’, unless they have no plan ‘B’. Then again... Who knows?
That’s my theory.
Data from Interpol show there were 39 million lost or stolen passports as at the end of last year.
The plane had a meter long piece of the wing clipped off several years ago in a ground collision. I’m no metallurgist, but I would think a jolt like that could leave a undetectable hairline crack near the fuselage.
Amish?
Starting to look like an episode of “lost”
If the dingleberries in transport security can’t even stop known STOLEN PASSPORTS, then there is effectively no security at all.