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~Lucidity
Just posting here also, for the record, that it's implausible to me that Iranians would have picked passports with names like Christian and Luigi if they wanted to avoid unwanted attention on the off-chance security actually worked at the airport they left? The fake/stolen passport market is surely better than this?
Zaphod58
reply to post by fockewulf190
There are a few flaws there.
1. Black boxes have been destroyed in explosions and fires in the past.
2. The locator beacons are short ranged.
3. A missile won't appear on radar unless it is very close to the antenna.
starviego
www.telegraph.co.uk...
The two men travelling on stolen passports on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that mysteriously disappeared on Saturday have been identified as Iranian nationals. ..... the men had bought the fake passports because they wanted to migrate to Europe.
~Lucidity
Just posting here also, for the record, that it's implausible to me that Iranians would have picked passports with names like Christian and Luigi if they wanted to avoid unwanted attention on the off-chance security actually worked at the airport they left? The fake/stolen passport market is surely better than this?
This story stinks. Is passport control in Frankfurt so loose than an Iranian could pass for a native Austrian? I seriously doubt it. I fly from NY to Berlin every year and the guy at passport control in Berlin always takes a pretty good look at me and my passport pic.edit on 10-3-2014 by starviego because: (no reason given)
The latest developments seem to suggest that the two men were part of a refugee scam, said security consultant Chris Mathers, who has investigated many cases that involved stolen passports while he was an RCMP officer.
"It doesn't matter that the passport is going to be detected upon arrival. All you need is something that will get you on the plane," Mr. Mathers said.
"When they would get to Beijing, the passports would likely not have been checked because they would be in the in-transit area. Then, when they get on the plane to Europe, they flush the passports and declare refugee status in Europe. This happens a lot."
Zaphod58
reply to post by UKGuy1805
It depends on their angle to MH370. If they were ahead of it they wouldn't see anything.
There's also the possibility that it's another American 587 and came apart without exploding.