<p>The plane changed course and the transponders were turned off. Also, don’t most cellphones go right to voicemail when blown to smithereens? Mine would. it would not ring.</p>
<p>Turns out now that were not searching anywhere near where the plane was last identified as being. So my bet is that they will find it soon.</p>
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<p>It makes sense to me that most countries/airlines don’t really care about the veracity of your passport when you are <em>leaving</em> a country. In fact, what a hassle and loss of business for the airlines if they had to reject passengers whose passports were flagged.</p>
<p>What I don’t understand is how those with stolen passports get through customs in their destination country. That is the point where your passport is scrutinized. What happens to those people then?</p>
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<p>Malaysia, like many other countries, has an exit immigration check, where they check the entry stamp in the passport (to make sure that you did not overstay the allowed time) and then stamp an exit stamp next to it.</p>
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<p>However, the airline has to return the passenger if the passenger is denied entry at the destination country’s immigration. This might be costly, if the airline cannot collect from the passenger. So there is at least theoretical motivation on the part of the airline to avoid bringing passengers who cannot pass the destination country’s immigration.</p>
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<p>In theory, the immigration official would scan the passport, and it would come up as “lost or stolen” if the immigration station checks the Interpol database (assuming that the passport is used to enter a country other than the issuing country, which would know that the passport is no longer valid). But does that always happen? Of course, the users of the stolen passports also need to resemble the pictures in the passports.</p>
<p>According to our local NBC affiliate, the 2 passengers in question used their valid passports to enter Malaysia, then switched to the stolen passports to leave on this flight.</p>
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<p>WHAT?!</p>
<p>Woman raises questions about cockpit behaviour.</p>
<p><a href=“http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8812646/woman-raises-questions-about-cockpit-behaviour[/url]”>http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8812646/woman-raises-questions-about-cockpit-behaviour</a></p>
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<p>Not confirmed.</p>
<p><a href=“Malaysia military source says missing jet veered to west”>http://news.yahoo.com/search-widened-malaysia-air-probe-finds-scant-evidence-052356192--sector.html</a></p>
<p>I think they landed on the same island as that Lost television series. Seems to make as much sense as anything else so far.</p>
<p>Or like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. when I saw that movie I thought it was unbelievable that technology could not find him or the plane.</p>
<p>The more I hear about this the more I’m thinking about Oceanic Flight 815, too. Not that I think that is what happened to this plane. </p>
<p>Going to be lots of conspiracy theories bandied sbout in InternetWorld if they don’t find this plane soon. </p>
<p>Limits of technology: <a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/10/technology-tracks-our-every-move-how-can-an-entire-plane-go-missing/”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/10/technology-tracks-our-every-move-how-can-an-entire-plane-go-missing/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-is-there-a-better-way-to-track-aircraft-during-flight/”>http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-is-there-a-better-way-to-track-aircraft-during-flight/</a></p>
<p>Hope busdriver checks in and gives us some of her knowledge!</p>
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<p>That makes sense. However, I also know from experience that if you are connecting through the Kuala Lumpur airport, no one checks your passport, other than an eyeball check by airline personnel when boarding the plane. I assume they just want to see that you have one with you and it contains the same name as your boarding pass.</p>
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<p>And btw… I’ll volunteer to share a shelter with Sawyer 
(I know this is no laughing matter, it’s just so peculiar to me I don’t know what to make of it)</p>
<p>My acquaintance, a Boeing engineer, thinks that highjacking with a “deserted island” landing is quite a plausible theory. </p>
<p>This claim is more believable than all other claims. It has backup of images and real person.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-probing-report-2-women-visited-pilot-in-cockpit-in-2011/[/url]”>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-probing-report-2-women-visited-pilot-in-cockpit-in-2011/</a></p>
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<p>Sorry eyemamom, I have dibs on Sawyer. </p>
<p>Hey emily, I’m the one who came up with the Lost theory! I call dibs.</p>
<p>^ Pfft. </p>