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| Use of stolen passports on missing |
| Use of stolen passports on missing airliner highlights security gap
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 11-March-2014
4:20:7 AM |
| As an armada of ships, planes and helicopters combed the waters south of Vietnam on Monday for any sign of a missing Malaysian airliner, aviation safety experts said the discovery that two passengers aboard the plane were traveling on stolen passports has revealed a major gap in airline security procedures developed since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (Stolen passports probed in Malaysian plane mystery; hunt on for Iranian man)
Since Interpol created a database of stolen and lost passports in 2002, the international repository has grown to more than 40 million documents available for governments to screen for terrorists, smugglers or swindlers who travel the world illicitly. But according to the international law enforcement agency, only three countries - the United States, Britain and the United Arab Emirates - systematically screen travelers against the agency's database of stolen passports.
The two men with stolen passports who boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing over the weekend did not have their passports screened, And last year, Interpol said, passengers around the world were able to board planes more than 1 billion times without having their passports checked against the database. "This is a situation we had hoped never to see," Ronald K. Noble, Interpol's secretary-general said in a statement Sunday from the organization's headquarters in Lyon, France. "For years, Interpol has asked why should countries wait for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates."
Renewed focus on the critical database, which has apparently gone underutilized, came on a day when the search for the missing jetliner and its 239 passengers and crew members was set back by a number of false leads that seemed to underline how little investigators knew about the location of the plane, which vanished Saturday.
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