“该飞机没有求救信号意味着，飞机要么就是遇到了爆炸性减压，要么就是被引爆装置摧毁了。”美国专门负责空难调查的全国运输安全委员会前董事会成员JohnGoglia对路透记者表示，他还说“有乘客利用假身份证登机，意味着飞机有极大的发生爆炸的可能性，这是一个很大的危险信号”。
据悉，国际警察机构“国际刑警组织”建有一个全球失踪被窃护照数据库，该数据库录入了166个国家的超过3900万旅客的遗失护照信息，通过该数据库，警察、移民或边境管理人员能够在几秒钟内查到可疑证件，核对护照的真实性。而据意大利警方消息，“被登机”的意大利乘客LuigiMaraldi的护照早在2013年8月1日就曾被录入“国际刑警组织”的失踪被窃护照数据库。但是目前，国际刑警组织没有对此做出任何评论。
Malaysian plane presumed crashed;questions over false IDs
(Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off theVietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said twopeople on board were using false identities.
There were no reports ofbad weather and no sign of why the Boeing777-200ER would have vanished fromradar screens about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur forBeijing.
“We are not ruling out any possibilities,” MalaysiaAirlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a newsconference.
By the early hours of Sunday, there were no confirmedsigns of the plane or any wreckage, well over 24 hours after itwent missing. Operations will continue through the night, officialssaid.
There were no indications of sabotage nor claims of aterrorist attack. But the passenger manifest issued by the airlineincluded the names of two Europeans - Austrian Christian Kozel andItalian Luigi Maraldi - who, according to their foreign ministries,were not in fact on the plane.A foreign ministry spokesman in Vienna said: p~~pOurembassy got the information that there was an Austrian on board.That was the passenger list from Malaysia Airlines. Our system cameback with a note that this is a stolen passport.p~~p
Austrian police had found the man safe at home. Thepassport was stolen two years ago while he was travelling inThailand, the spokesman said.
The foreign ministry in Rome said no Italian was on theplane either, despite the inclusion of Maraldip~ps name on the list.His mother, Renata Lucchi, told Reuters his passport was lost,presumed stolen, in Thailand in 2013.
U.S. and European security officials said that there wasno proof of any terrorist link and there could be otherexplanations for the use of stolen passports.
NO MAYDAY
The 11-year-old Boeing, powered by Rolls-Royce Trentengines, took off at 12:40 a.m. (1640 GMT Friday) from Kuala LumpurInternational Airport and was apparently flying in good weatherconditions when it went missing without a distresscall.
Flight MH370 last had contact with air trafficcontrollers 120 nautical miles off the east coast of the Malaysiantown of Kota Bharu. Flight tracking website flightaware.com showedit flew northeast after takeoff, climbed to 35,000 feet and wasstill climbing when it vanished from tracking records.
A crash, if confirmed, would likely mark the 777p~pssecond fatal incident in less than a year, and its deadliest sinceentering service 19 years ago. An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-200ERcrash-landed in San Francisco in July 2013, killing threepassengers and injuring more than 180.
Boeing said it was monitoring the situation but had nofurther comment.
Paul Hayes, director of safety at Flightglobal Ascendaviation consultancy, said the flight would normally have been at aroutine stage, having reached initial cruise altitude.p~~pSuch a sudden disappearance would suggest either thatsomething is happening so quickly that there is no opportunity toput out a mayday, in which case a deliberate act is one possibilityto consider, or that the crew is busy coping with what whatever hastaken place,p~~p he told Reuters.
He said it was too early to speculate on thecauses.
A large number of planes and ships from severalcountries were scouring the area where the plane last made contact,about halfway between Malaysia and the southern tip ofVietnam.
p~~pThe search and rescue operations will continue as longas necessary,p~~p Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told reporters.He said his country had deployed 15 air force aircraft, six navyships and three coast guard vessels.
Search and rescue vessels from the Malaysian maritimeenforcement agency reached the area where the plane last madecontact but saw no sign of wreckage, the Malaysian MaritimeEnforcement Agency said.
Vietnam said its rescue planes had spotted two large oilslicks, about 15 km (9 miles) long, and a column of smoke off itscoastline, but it was not clear if they were connected to themissing plane.
China and the Philippines also sent ships to the regionto help, while the United States, the Philippines and Singaporedispatched military planes. China also put other ships and aircrafton standby.
NO DISTRESS CALL
The disappearance of the plane is a chilling echo of anAir France flight that crashed into the South Atlantic on June 1,2009, killing all 228 people on board. It vanished for hours andwreckage was found only two days later.
John Goglia, a former board member of the NationalTransportation Safety Board, the U.S. agency that investigatesplane crashes, said the lack of a distress call suggested that theplane either experienced an explosive decompression or wasdestroyed by an explosive device.p~~pIt had to be quick because there was no communication,p~~pGoglia said.
He said the false identities of the two passengersstrongly suggested the possibility of a bomb.
p~~pThatp~ps a big red flag,p~~p he said.
If there were passengers on board with stolen passports,it was not clear how they passed through securitychecks.
International police body Interpol maintains a databaseof more than 39 million travel documents reported lost or stolen by166 countries, and says on its website that this enables police,immigration or border control officers to check the validity of asuspect document within seconds. No comment was immediatelyavailable from the organization.
Italian police said the passport of Luigi Maraldi wasreported stolen on August 1, 2013 and was inserted in the Interpoldatabase
RELATIVES ANGRY
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters inBeijing that China was p~~pextremely worriedp~~p about the fate of theplane and those on board. Chinese passengersp~p relatives angrilyaccused the airline of keeping them in the dark, while state mediacriticized the carrierp~ps response as poor.
p~~pTherep~ps no one from the company here, we canp~pt find asingle person. Theyp~pve just shut us in this room and told us towait,p~~p said one middle-aged man at a hotel near Beijing airportwhere the relatives were taken.
p~~pWe want someone to show their face. They havenp~pt evengiven us the passenger list,p~~p he said.
Another relative, trying to evade a throng of reporters,muttered: p~~pTheyp~pre treating us worse than dogs.p~~p
The airline said people of 14 nationalities were amongthe 227 passengers, including at least 152 Chinese, 38 Malaysians,seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French andthree Americans.In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines told passengersp~p nextof kin to come to the international airport with their passports toprepare to fly to the crash site, once it wasidentified.
About 20-30 families were being kept in a holding roomat the airport, where they were being guarded by security officialsand kept away from reporters.
Malaysia Airlines has one of the best safety recordsamong full-service Asia-Pacific carriers.
It identified the pilot of MH370 as Captain ZaharieAhmad Shah, a 53-year-old Malaysian who joined the carrier in 1981and has 18,365 hours of flight experience.
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