INTERPOL Chief Scolds Security Authorities For Not Routinely Using Stolen, Lost Passport Database
By: Anthony Kimery
03/10/2014 (12:43pm)
In the wake of the sudden and unprecedented disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has been critical of global aviation security authorities for not routinely checking INTERPOL’s stolen and lost passport database against airline passengers.
Flight MH 370 -- a Boeing-777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, inexplicably vanished without a trace Saturday at 12:41 AM about 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur over the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam. The plane was cruising at 35,000 feet in what reportedly was good weather and had given no indication of problems.
INTERPOL confirmed that at least two passports -- Austrian and Italian -- recorded in its Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) Database, were used by passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
INTERPOL said the Austrian and Italian passports were added to the SLTD database after their theft in Thailand in 2012 and 2013. INTERPOL said it is also conducting checks on all other passports used to board flight MH 370 which may also have been reported stolen.
“No checks of the stolen Austrian and Italian passports were made by any country between the time they were entered into INTERPOL’s database and the departure of flight MH 370,” the international law enforcement and intelligence agency said in a statement Sunday. “At this time, INTERPOL is therefore unable to determine on how many other occasions these passports were used to board flights or cross borders.” For further reading http://www.hstoday.us/industry-news/general/single-article/interpol-chief-scolds-security-authorities-for-not-routinely-using-stolen-lost-passport-database
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