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Malaysia Airlines 777 has gone missing

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by old_tony, Mar 7, 2014.

  1. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It should be noted that there are other reasons why people might wish to enter China on a false passport besides terrorism. They're all criminal, but there's fraud, industrial espionage and plain old espionage to name three.
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Was about to post the same thing. The passports may have had absolutely nothing to do with this. All kinds of reasons why people have fake identities. It does call into question the folks doing the screening at the Kuala Lumpur airport though.

    The fact they can't find any large pieces of wreckage would seem to indicate a massive mid-air explosion of some kind.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    The tickets were booked through an Iranian middleman known as “Mr Ali” a Thai travel agent told the Financial Times newspaper (registration required).

    The newspaper quoted Benjaporn Krutnait, owner of the Grand Horizon travel agency in Pattaya, as saying the Iranian had asked her to book the two men to travel to Europe on March 1, specifying only that she find them cheap tickets.

    She initially booked them on two separate flights -– one on Qatar Airways and another on Etihad airline –- but the tickets expired before she heard again from the Iranian, she said.

    After he contacted her on Thursday, she rebooked the men on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, though the Iranian again did not specify a flight. 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.


    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/iranian-bought-tickets-fake-passport-passengers-report-n49016
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    A Malaysian government official said the guy with the Italian passport looked like Mario Balotelli.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Apparently, though, the U.S. has some global explosion tracking device that would have registered it, if this had occurred. I'm not sure how accurate it is, as it was referred to just briefly in a story I read over the weekend.
     
  6. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Platinum mohawk?
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    That's what the reporter at the Guardian suggested.
     
  8. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Actually, I think no wreckage being found means the plane dove into the water mostly intact. A mid-air explosion would mean all kinds of floating debris would be out there, including bodies and seat cushions and luggage.
     
  9. Rusty Shackleford

    Rusty Shackleford Active Member

    Benjaporn? Probably best not to google that name at work.
     
  10. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    My college put out the "First-Year Facebook" every year (this was before Facebook existed) with pictures and hometowns of every freshman who could be bothered to submit them. There was a girl in there who was obviously from Southeast Asia and had decided, as many do, to pick a Western first name. Unfortunately, the name she wound up with was Kitty Porn.
     
  11. MCbamr

    MCbamr Member

    This plane will show up in China flying into the side of a building or something. It's terrorism. The indicator that authorities use to find downed planes is apparently not going off. Had to have been turned off just like the 9/11 planes. And planes that size don't just glide into the ocean. This plane was taken for a purpose. One-way tickets. Stolen passports.
     
  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    You do know that the plane would've been in the air for three days now under your scenario, don't you? Unless it was solar powered, that's hard to do.
     
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