Tag: Air Travel

In this March 12, 2014 photo, Italian Luigi Maraldi whose stolen passport was used by a passenger boarding a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, shows his passport as he speaks to a reporter at Phuket police station in Phuket province, southern Thailand. Maraldi lost his passport when he hired a motorbike on Phuket last year. When he returned to the shop to retrieve his passport, he was told it had been given away to someone who looked just like him. His passport, along with another stolen in Phuket two years earlier, was used to board the ill-fated flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing undetected, revealing startling shortcomings in the security of international travel. Interpol said it maintains a global database of 40 million lost or stolen travel documents. The organization said only a handful of countries actually check the database before allowing passengers to board international flights. Malaysia and Thailand are not among them. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Missing plane throws spotlight on passport theft

Thanyarat Doksone · March 15, 2014 7:08 am

FILE - In this Sunday, March 9, 2014, file photo, a man looks out from a viewing gallery as a Malaysia Airlines aircraft sits on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. With the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 entering its eighth day, scenarios involving piracy or hijacking are increasingly being talked about as possible explanations for the disappearance of the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Missing jet: Piracy would require special skills

David Koenig · March 15, 2014 2:49 am

Malaysian official says missing plane hijacked

EILEEN NGJOAN LOWY · March 15, 2014 1:14 am

Malaysian official says investigators conclude missing jet was hijacked, steered off-course

Malaysian official says investigators conclude missing jet was hijacked, steered off-course

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2014 11:50 pm

Muslim men leave a mosque after Friday prayers, just down the road of the home of Fariq Abdul Hamid, co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, center, Friday, March 14, 2014 in Shah Alam, Malaysia. The pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet were a contented middle-aged family man passionate enough about flying to build his own simulator and a 27-year-old contemplating marriage who had just graduated to the cockpit of the Boeing 777. Details about the men have emerged from interviews with neighbors, Malaysia Airlines staff, a religious leader and from social networks and news reports in Malaysia and Australia.(AP Photo/Eileen Ng)

Missing jet’s pilots had firm community ties

Eileen Ng · March 14, 2014 6:03 pm

What happened to the missing plane’s transponder?

What happened to the missing plane’s transponder?

Holbrook Mohr · March 14, 2014 5:36 pm

Rival theories on Malaysia flight’s disappearance

The Associated Press · March 14, 2014 4:10 pm

A look at the types of signals a plane gives off

A look at the types of signals a plane gives off

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2014 6:50 am

China appeals to Malaysia for search information

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2014 5:25 am

Passengers evacuate US Airways Flight 1702 after the pilot was forced to abort takeoff shortly after 6 p.m., after a tire on the plane's front landing gear blew out, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Philadelphia. The Airbus A320 jet, bound for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was carrying 149 passengers and five crew members, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said. All were rescheduled on departing flights Thursday night, she said. (AP Photo/Dennis Fee)

Jet aborts takeoff after gear failure in Philly

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2014 3:07 am

US ponders drug testing in foreign aircraft shops

US ponders drug testing in foreign aircraft shops

David Koenig · March 14, 2014 12:22 am

Mystery of missing jet recalls past disappearances

The Associated Press · March 13, 2014 10:17 pm