New Delhi: The stolen passports and the possibility of a passenger or some passengers using fake passports on the missing Malaysian airlines has triggered an alarm all over the World. Security and intelligence agencies fear that the flight may have been hijacked or bombed by the terrorists. No trace of the plane after four days has increased the fear across the globe.
Two passengers on the flight MH370 were travelling on stolen passports, the Malaysian officials have confirmed. The passengers - travelling with Italian and Austrian passports that had been stolen in Thailand - purchased their plane tickets at the same time, and were both booked on the same onward flight from Beijing to Europe on Saturday.
But using fake or stolen passports to travel is not a new thing in Asia and Africa. When an Air India plane from Dubai crashed at Mangalore airport on May 22, 2010 with the loss of 158 lives, as many as 10 fraudulent passports were recovered.
Local media had reported that two "dead" passengers were actually found alive in a village in neighboring Kerala. Later, it was revealed that their identities were stolen to create fake passports. But, there are many contradictory reports on this. Some claim that the investigation was hushed up.
This incident has given some hope that the plane going missing mid-air may not have anything to do with terrorists or terrorism.
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