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>> i have been speaking with law enforcement officials and they are telling me, you may be surprised to learn that it is something that does happen, specially among drug weapons, human traffickers. they will often try to use these stolen passports to board planes. here in the u.s., authorities routinely check passports for inbound and outbound passengers on international flights and a number of databases, including interpols lost and stolen passport database. the numbers are really alarming here...

Security on international flights. all it would have taken was a quick search to see if those two pass pores had been stolen. the pass ports hadnt been checked at all since they were entered into the database last year and 2012 opening up the possibility they were used before. last year passengers were able to enter planes without their pass ports checked. theres 800 million searches in interpols database a year. important to know its up to each governments country to check the database not the ...

Would you believe they are looking closely at the notion of terrorism with regard to this plane going down? >> i know theyre looking closely at that. >> why is that? >> first of all, you can look at the press reports and they say it. secondly, when i talk to people in the intelligence community, like i said these are the groups im hearing coming up in the conversations and both are linked to al qaeda. it is possible they work together or it might be that j.i. decided they wanted to take up the c...

Databases more than 1 billio times. >> 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 interpols virtual private network thats running 24 hours a day, they certainly would be able to access that database and check it. its up to the will of the country to set it up and do it. >> ronald noble says now we have a real case where the world is spec...

Why? >> well, it happens all the time that unfortunately these passports get passed up on the database. so it could turn out to be something, but again, its not the be all and end all, i dont think, in this situation. >> another development that we had over the weekend that a lot of people are talking about was the possibility that the plane actually changed direction right at the time of that last electric signal. youre not so sure you buy that either. >> well, again, the area between vietnam a...

U.s. searches of interpols database, more than 250 million times a year. thats a look at the numbers there. its up to each countrys government to check the database, not the airline. right now interpol is helping to identify who those passengers who boarded the anyway were. officials say people use stolen passports for a lot of reasons, at this point they just dont know who these two people were. >> thank you for the reporting, especially on that last point. let deep in with what may be relevant...

Tickets, all potential red flags. >> does that add to the concerns about terror or take away? >> it adds to my concern because a terrorist group would go for that. they piggyback on drug smugglers, immigration smugglers as well. so absolutely, they could go to this guy. he may know nothing about it. just given a sum of money and said get these people on the airplane and get them passports. >> reporter: the passports the mystery men use have been reported stolen to interpol in 2012 and 2013, but ...

Whether you are wanted or the passport is stolen. the country, the government does. >> according to interpol, last year alone, passengers were able to avoid planes without having their passports screened against interpol as data base. it con stains an astounding 40 million record of stolen documents. >> the 190 members that belong to interpol are not charge a fee for accessing any of the databases. if the country has sufficient resources and technical capability to wire into interpols virtual pr...

Tel-aviv airport in israel. hes now part of new age security solutions. this seems like a major security flaw. would this have happened in the u.s.? could somebody get on the plane with a stolen passport? >> not so easily. because the u.s. has adopted a system that checks names of passengers against a variety of advices and whenever there is information about a name that appears on stolen documents, it is supposed to be on those lists. so they practically -- i think travelers in america are much...

Who are the two men believed to have used stolen passports to board that plane and was this an act of terror? we are getting answers to some of the questions tonight with lake-breaking developments on the two stolen passports and how those men got on flight 370. pamela brown has been covering the story. malaysian officials shared with the u.s. government photoeoes of the two men. what else have we learned? >> investigators had leads to work with. as you see the fbi is running through the databas...