Still no sign of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

flightRahman also said terrorism has not been ruled out as the reason Flight MH370 disappeared about an hour into its flight after reaching a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. “We are looking at every angle,” he said. “We remain puzzled” about what happened to the jetliner.

 

The plane lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam, and searchers in a low-flying plane spotted an object that appeared to be one of the plane’s doors, the state-run Thanh Nien newspaper said, citing the deputy chief of staff of Vietnam’s army, Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan.

 

The jetliner apparently fell from the sky in fine weather, and the pilots were either unable or had no time to send a distress signal, adding to the mystery over the final minutes of the flight.

There are also questions over how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports.

Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen documents before the Boeing jetliner departed Saturday.

Experts tell CBS News the failure to screen hundreds of millions of international passengers for fraudulent or lost documents is a major aviation security loophole.

Warning “only a handful of countries” routinely make such checks, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble chided authorities for “waiting for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates.”

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