. Originally Posted by bakedbean  I've seen bags offloaded many times. Have to wonder how it happens so much. Anyway, latest is that the suspected door was not a door. The suspected oil slick turns out to be bunker fuel (that's fuel for ships), and a fisherman off Kota baru in the north of peninsula Malaysia reported seeing a low flying plane at about the right suspected time. More mystery . |
Is it possible it was literally flying under the radar? Could it have been hijacked? Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad Hmm, that link to the right "lack of international passenger screening a gaping hole in global security " talks about 40% of passengers not run through the stolen records database, implying 60% are, and that that 60% produced 60000 hits last year, or 164 a day. Now it may well be that the 40% not run represent a higher risk group, but even so, it's still going to be a long way short of the "every flight is going to have a few" position. |
..... Traveling with stolen documents is a fairly common phenomenon that is rarely detected. According to data collected by the Wall Street Journal, passengers boarded flights without having their passports checked against Interpols database of stolen documents 1 billion times last year. Meanwhile, 40 million passports are reported missing. ..... |
Originally Posted by Pulaski |
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad Not sure what you're trying to say...all that report says is that authorities aren't checking the database, so people are boarding without their passports being checked against the database... not that stolen passports were used that number of times. |
