Ada 2 penumpang misteri di dalam MH370...perampas???

Maraldi dilaporkan kehilangan pasportnya di Thailand Ogos lepas.

"Mereka (pihak berkuasa Malaysia) mempunyainya (maklumat) tetapi ia masih dalam (semakan)," kata Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan Aziz Kaprawi kepada pemberita lewat petang ini di sebuah hotel di KLIA.

Menurut Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman Penerbangan, pihak berkuasa telah meneliti semua rakaman CCTV penumpang serta bagasi.

"Setakat ini kita puas hati," katanya, sambil menambah maklumat lanjut tidak boleh didedahkan atas sebab-sebab keselamatan.

Corriere Della Serra melaporkan bahawa ibu bapa Maraldi telah dihubungi oleh MAS tetapi mengatakan anak mereka tidak dalam pesawat yang hilang pada jam 1.30 pagi ini.

Ini diketahui ketika CNN melaporkan bahawa para pegawai Austria mengesahkan bahawa seorang warga Austria yang tersenarai sebagai penumpang, Christian Kozel, tidak menaiki pesawat MH370 dan pasportnya telah dicuri.

"Seorang warga Austria disenaraikan sebagai penumpang pesawat Malaysia Airlines yang hilang itu tidak ada dalam pesawat itu, dan pasportnya telah dicuri dua tahun lalu, pegawai itu memberitahu CNN," demikian menurut ringkasan berita di lamanweb CNN.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Malaysia Airlines Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, bagaimanapun, memberi amaran terhadap spekulasi yang berterusan.

"Bagi kami, ia hanya satu laporan.

"Kami sedang bekerjasama dengan kedutaan asing untuk memastikan kita boleh mengesahkan laporan itu...

"Spekulasi bermula sejak pagi ini dan setiap spekulasi telah didapati tidak benar," katanya.

Ditanya jika ini boleh menunjukkan kemungkinan berlaku rampasan, beliau berkata MAS dan pihak berkuasa " tidak menolak semua kemungkinan".

Pengawal trafik udara terputus hubungan radar dengan Boeing 777-200 di sempadan ruang udara Malaysia dan Vietnam kira-kira 200 batu nautika di luar pantai Kota Baru ketika ia dalam perjalanan ke Beijing.

Pesawat itu membawa 239 penumpang dan anak kapal, termasuk 152 warga China dan 38 rakyat Malaysia.

Pesawat itu yang dilaporkan hilang semasa terbang di atas Laut China Selatan juga merupakan penerbangan perkongsian kod dengan dengan China Southern Airline.- malaysiakini

Vietnamese rescue planes have spotted a column of smoke and large oil slicks off its coastline...

Two passengers on MH370 using stolen passports...

The authorities are investigating the possibility of foul play following a report that an Italian national listed on MH370's flight manifest never boarded the plane.

According to foreign news reports, passenger Luigi Maraldi, 37, was listed on the flight manifest released by Malaysia Airlines earlier, but Italian newspaper Corriere Della Serra reported that he was not on the plane.

Maraldi reportedly lost his passport in Thailand last August.

 

"They (Malaysian authorities) have it (the information) but it is still under (review)," Deputy Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi told reporters late this evening at a hotel in KLIA.

 

According to Department of Civil Aviation's Azharuddin Abdul Rahman authorities have looked through all CCTV footage of the passengers as well as baggage.

"So far we are satisfied," he said, adding that further information cannot be revealed for security reasons. 

Another person didn't board plane?

Corriere Della Serra reported that Maraldi's parent were contacted by MAS but said that their son is not aboard the plane which went missing at 1.30am today.

This comes as CNN reported that Austrian officials confirm that the sole Austrian listed on the manifest, Christian Kozel, did not board the plane and had his passport stolen.

 

"An Austrian citizen listed as a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines plane was not aboard, and his passport had been stolen two years ago, official tells CNN," the news brief on CNN's website reads.

 

Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, however, cautioned against further speculation.

 

"These are reports which we need to form. As far as we are concerned, it is just a report.

 

"We are working foreign embassies to ensure we can confirm the report...

 

"Speculations have begun since this morning and every speculation has been squashed," he said.

Asked if this could indicate possible hijacking, he said that MAS and the authorities are "not ruling anything out".

 

Air traffic controllers lost radar contact with the Boeing 777-200 at the border of the Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace about 200 nautical miles off the coast of Kota Baru en route Beijing.

 

239 passenger and crew were on board, including 152 Chinese nationals and 38 Malaysians.

 

The flight which went missing while flying above the South China Sea is also a code share flight with China Southern Airline.- malaysiakini

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