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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. that's where we ought to be looking on things that we can tighten up and red flag those individuals who've traveled into the region and see where we can increase our cooperation with interp interpol. that's really about making america safer against these threats. >> senator warner, we have many more specific questions for you because there's obviously heightened concern, heightened interest here in the united states, indeed around the world on what's going on. much mo...

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, it's been terrible. >> just the fact that they took seven days before they began to look at the pilot and co pilot is inexcusable. any time you have a situation like this, the pilot and co pilot have t...

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? >> that's true. they could easily check with interpol, but didn't. and most countries don't before -- >> why not? >> well, that's -- that would have to be a question for the malaysia authorities. because they just haven't had the will to do it. this is something -- ron noble, secretary general of interpol, has been pushing this every year. he pushed it again this year in carta haina at...

Interpol, last year alone, passengers were able to board planes without having their passports screened against interpol's 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 interpol's virtual private network that's running 24 hours a day, then, you know, they certainly would be ...

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 that's not the case everywhere. here is cnn's pamela brown. >> reporter: it's 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 names listed in interp interpol's lost and stolen travel documents database. one since last year, the...