Interpol has warned of an alarming global security weakness after it emerged that authorities had failed to check the stolen passports with which two passengers had boarded a missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
A multinational search continued yesterday for the wreckage of the Boeing 777, which was carrying 239 people on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it went missing in the early morning hours on Saturday. Reports out of Vietnam late last night indicated that one search plane had found the first pieces of debris.
But, while it remained unclear just what had caused the plane to suddenly vanish from radar screens, investigators from Malaysia and the FBI were trying to establish the identity of two passengers who boarded the plane using the stolen passports and two others as well, officials said.