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And frankly they can then go back to france or go back to belgium and relatively easy climb on an airplane and come to america. thats where we ought to be looking on things that we can tighten up and red flag those individuals whove traveled into the region and see where we can increase our cooperation with interp interpol. thats really about making america safer against these threats. >> senator warner, we have many more specific questions for you because theres obviously heightened concern, he...

Within the cockpit. >> u.s. officials have they been leaning toward catastrophic economical failure or some nefarious act? >> my conversations have been leaning toward, happening within the cockpit, either terrorism or suicide. >> not pure mechanical failure. >> how close contact do you believe we have with the malaysian government and are they cooperating with us the way they need to be? >> no, its been terrible. >> just the fact that they took seven days before they began to look at the pilot ...

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...

Closer look at how two people managed to get on that malaysia airlines flight with stolen passports. hard to imagine that happening here in the united states in the wake of 9/11. but thats not the case everywhere. here is cnns pamela brown. >> reporter: its one of the biggest mysteries in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. how in a post 9/11 world did two passengers board an international flight with stolen passports? even more surprising, they were in plain sight. among the name...

Go through passport control, those are more often checked, and many of those passport computers or passport control computers, are set up to automatically make an inquiry not just in the individual countrys databases, but to interpol headquarters inially own, france, for whether or not the document is stolen or whether the name used on that document, there has been an arrest warrant, red notice, issued. so its more common on the incoming flights, but not as common on the outgoing. and this is so...