Malaysia Airlines Jet Vanishes

[AGDee]

The manifest is posted on the Malaysian Airlines site. Those identified as USA are (the number is their age):
MENG/NICOLECHD USA 4
WOOD/PHILIP USA 51
ZHANG/YAN USA 2

It doesn't appear that they are all from the same family. I would guess that the children are children of Chinese nationals who live and work in the US so they were born in the US.

[moe.ron]

The plot thickens:

Uncertainly over the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was further compounded Saturday by reports that two men whose names matched those on the passenger manifest had reported their passports stolen.

Malaysian authorities apparently did not check the stolen documents on an international law enforcement agency database, CNN has learned.
After the airline released a manifest of the 239 people on the plane, Austria denied that one of its citizens was on the flight as the list had stated. The Austrian citizen was safe and sound, and his passport had been stolen two years ago, Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss said.
Similarly, Italy's foreign ministry confirmed that no Italians were on the flight, even though an Italian was listed on the manifest. Malaysian officials said they were aware of reports that the Italian's passport was also stolen but had not confirmed it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/08/wo...html?hpt=hp_t1

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by AGDee

The manifest is posted on the Malaysian Airlines site. Those identified as USA are (the number is their age):
MENG/NICOLECHD USA 4
WOOD/PHILIP USA 51
ZHANG/YAN USA 2

It doesn't appear that they are all from the same family. I would guess that the children are children of Chinese nationals who live and work in the US so they were born in the US.

I just read that Philip Wood is from Livonia.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

I just read that Philip Wood is from Livonia.

?

I believe he's from Texas, outside of Fort Worth.

ETA:
http://news.yahoo.com/american-fathe...205115030.html

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

I just read that Philip Wood is from Livonia.

Closest thing I've seen to that was an interview with a former IBM co-worker who is now in the "Detroit area".

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

?

I believe he's from Texas, outside of Fort Worth.

ETA:
http://news.yahoo.com/american-fathe...205115030.html

Originally Posted by AGDee

Closest thing I've seen to that was an interview with a former IBM co-worker who is now in the "Detroit area".

Yeah I'm sorry. He was from Texas but they interviewed his friend that lives in Livonia. I got that confused.

[ASTalumna06]

The biggest mysteries of the missing plane:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...y?id=22838958#

I've read on multiple sites that they're looking into 4 IDs being questionable. Two of them are the stolen passports mentioned above (by moe.ron), but it doesn't appear that details have been released about the other two suspicious passengers/IDs.

[ASTalumna06]

This story is driving me crazy! Every time I think they've found something, someone says, "No, nevermind.. it was nothing."

I just came across this story that said they may have found a door to the missing jet… but I searched for other sites reporting the same thing, and they say the story regarding the door has been discounted.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03...ing-23-people/

Something of interest, though:

European authorities on Saturday confirmed the names and nationalities of the two stolen passports: One was an Italian-issued document bearing the name Luigi Maraldi, the other Austrian under the name Christian Kozel. Police in Thailand said Maraldi's passport was stolen on the island of Phuket last July.

A telephone operator on a China-based KLM hotline on Sunday confirmed to The Associated Press that "Maraldi" and "Kozel" were both booked to leave Beijing on a KLM flight to Amsterdam on March 8. Maraldi was then to fly to Copenhagen, Denmark, on KLM on March 8, and Kozel to Frankfurt, Germany, on March 8.

She said since the pair booked the tickets through China Southern Airlines, she had no information on where they bought them. The ticket purchases reportedly took place almost simultaneously, and the tickets were numbered consecutively, according to the BBC.

[ASTalumna06]

Oil slicks not from missing jet:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...ors-say-n48826