Who Flew? FBI to Check Thumbprints of Impostor Passengers

[jakeXT]

The FBI is expected to analyze thumbprints of two men who used false passports to board the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared en route to China and see if they can find a match in their massive database, NBC News has learned.

Airport security took the prints from two men who boarded Flight 370 to Beijing at the Kuala Lumpur airport on March 8 using passports stolen from an Italian and an Austrian tourist. The plane, which had 239 passengers and crew aboard, went missing after take-off and is now the subject of a multi-nation hunt.

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The middleman, an Iranian referred to as "Ali," paid cash for the tickets. Shortly after Ali learned that two of his customers were the subjects of a worldwide investigation into the doomed flight, he came forward and told authorities how he purchased the tickets and detailed other assistance he provided the two men. The middleman is currently believed to be in Iran and U.S. authorities have not been in direct contact with him, sources said.

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He contacted her again on Thursday, and again did not specify a flight. She rebooked the men on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, which was also marketed as a China Southern Airlines flight under a codeshare agreement. This time a friend of the Iranian paid in cash, she said. Benjaporn then arranged for a larger agency, Six Stars Travel, to issue the tickets, according to Thai police.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/who-flew-fbi-check-thumbprints-impostor-passengers-n49156

Malaysia, probably like a lot of countries, does not check for stolen passports systematically.
But they take thumbprints, do they take them from everybody ?

This much was clear: Although there are millions of passports listed as stolen, lost or missing in the world, only a few countries systematically check for them at airport gates.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/09/stolen-passports-malaysia-flight/6230767/

[uppityperson]

1. DU gets spammers signing up regularly offering fake passports. It seems airlines would check

passport info with stolen passport database.

[egold2604]

2. The Dharma Initiative has the plane and survivors on an Island

[treestar]

3. Then it may be those two men have nothing to do with it

Maybe they were just going to work illegally in the EU.

[jakeXT]

4. Do we know what the other two were doing ?

After it emerged that two people boarded the flight with stolen European passports, Malaysia's transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he was looking at four suspect passengers in all.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/21897115/vietnam-spots-possible-wreckage-from-malaysian-plane/