Originally Posted by
ThreeBet
To say the least, it's a bit disturbing that two people can board a plane with passports that were reported stolen, two years ago and 9 months ago, respectively.
How are those passports not flagged?
Now they're saying the two passengers with stolen passports bought their tickets together.
I'm only on a few hours sleep, and the critical thinking part of my brain doesn't feel like working, but how does that happen?
How does two passports, stolen 15 months apart, granted by 2 different countries not get flagged by either country?
There might be some easy explanation for this, but I can't think of it. My first thought was some local criminals, but what Asian criminals can pass for an Italian and an Aussie? Australia has the toughest customs in the world, I can't imagine whatever agency there grants passports would be sloppy, because it's kind of interrelated with customs.
Who can pass for an Italian and Aussie and make sure passports aren't flagged at a gov't level? Intelligence? Corporate espionage? Strange story. The Uighurs probably could pass, but how do they know the passports aren't flagged?
And, whatever the explanation, it might be pure coincidence and nothing to do with why the plane went down unless it was the Uighurs, but it doesn't feel like there is much terror in something that no one knows you did, and no one is claiming.