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Opposite direction towards beijing. a lot of criticism of the malaysian government on the inconsistencies, disparities that have been coming out. what are the folks involved in the investigation saying, do they have confidence in what malaysia is doing? >> what we have heard from interpol, they have indicated that the way that they have been working with the malaysians to ascertain the details of the would men who were using the stolen passports, they have not complained specifically about this ...

It seems preposterous, it seems extraordinary that none of these countries have no automatic way of checking if people are traveling with stolen passports against the interpol list. how difficult is it to set up a system like that? >> i dont think its that hard given the fact that interpol has made this database very available. and here in the united states, we use it extensively to do these passport checks. but you have to look at the rest of the world. because even though, even after 9/11, we ...

Stolen passport. but authorities say its very possible. >> so many governments do not check outbound passengers. and by the way, thats over 1 billion tickets a year that are issued without a check being performed to see if the documents were stolen or lost. used to get those international tickets. >> the database at interpol headquarters contains an astounding 40 million records of stolen passports. its the responsibility of each countrys government to check that database for passengers on inter...

Authorities would make sense. they can check them and run them through the databases and see it they have background information. >> its interesting that you and i have been having the discussion and should the black box system be elevated, we will find out what happened with regard to that. we are still waiting and we dont have the information. technology allows us how quickly they are moving on the individuals that could possibly be involved in something here. >> it is true. no question. in ou...

Thailand and it appears the two passengers who used the passports are italian and australian citizen bought their tickets together. >> when you book your ticket the airline is not able to actually make an inquiry with interpol or even the local police about whether youre wanted or whether as if port has been reported stolen. the country, the government does. >> reporter: according to interpol last year alone passengers were able to board planes without having their passports screened against int...

This resort town. how is it possible that those stolen passports with those numbers can be approved to board an international flight when he could easily check with interpoll to get a record of stolen passports? >> thats true. they could easily check with interpol, but didnt. and most countries dont before -- >> why not? >> well, thats -- that would have to be a question for the malaysia authorities. because they just havent had the will to do it. this is something -- ron noble, secretary genera...

Interpol, last year alone, passengers were able to board planes without having their passports screened against interpols databases more than 1 billion times. the database at interpol headquarters in france contains an astounding 40 million records of stolen travel documents. >> you know, the member countries, the 190 members that belong to interpol are not charged a fee for accessing any of those databases. so if the country has sufficient resources and technical capability to wire into interpo...

With a mortgage thats engineered to amaze. thanks, "g." we are following breaking news. the fbi running through the database of thumb prints for the passengers who used stolen pass ports to board the missing plane that vanished three days ago. there is absolutely no sign of the boeing 777 or of the 239 passengers on board. the plane took off from kuala lumpur at 241 saturday morning. the flight pad was 2,000 miles. around 2:40 a.m. air traffic controllers had the last contact with the plane so...

Numbers have been used to obtain other tickets in the past. >> i have hereby here to confirm that all security protocols have been complied with. >> reporter: passengers trying to board a plane with stolen other fake passports isnt uncommon. every year people board a flight more than one billion times without having their passports checked at interpols lost and stolen database, leaving a gaping hole in the security of international flights worldwide. so far there are no credible claims of respon...

Many more questions than answers. right now, authorities are working to figure out what the intent of those two passengers who boarded flight 370 with stolen passports pay have been and whether they were associated in any way with a terrorist organization. the fact that this could have happened is raising questions about security on international flights. it is one of the biggest mysteries in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. how did two passengers board an international fligh...