The dismal news overnight that a Malaysian Airlines jet, carring over 200 passengers and crew, had "gone missing" appears to have become considerably more troublesome. News this morning of pools of oil off the Vietnam coast - suggestive of a crash - are dreadful but, as NBC News reports, perhaps more crucially, U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are *investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet turned out not to be on the plane and had reported their passports stolen*.
The *lastest *on the "missing" plane (via The Telegraph),
*Vietnam air force planes spot two oil slicks suspected to be from missing Malaysian Boeing 777 jet.*
The fate of flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing remains unclear more than 12 hours after air traffic controllers lost touch with the plane.
However, *Vietnamese authorities said they had spotted a 14-mile long oil slick 120 miles off the coast of Cape Ca Mau - the most southerly point of Vietnam's mainland. *
A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted late on Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were each between six and nine miles long.
But there are *growimng concerns that this was a terrorist attack...* (via NBC News,)
Luigi Maraldi, 37, was the only Italian on a passenger manifest released by the airline after the jet disappeared over the South China Sea.
?But his father, Walter Maraldi, told NBC News from Cesena, Italy:* “Luigi called us early this morning to reassure us he was fine, but we didn’t know about the accident. Thank God he heard about it before us.”*
Luigi Maraldi was on vacation in Thailand, the father said. *He said that Luigi Maraldi’s passport was stolen one year ago.*
*The foreign ministry of Austria confirmed to NBC News that police had made contact with a citizen who was also on the passenger list, and who reported his passport stolen two years ago while traveling in Asia.*
Reported by Zero Hedge 10 hours ago.
The *lastest *on the "missing" plane (via The Telegraph),
*Vietnam air force planes spot two oil slicks suspected to be from missing Malaysian Boeing 777 jet.*
The fate of flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing remains unclear more than 12 hours after air traffic controllers lost touch with the plane.
However, *Vietnamese authorities said they had spotted a 14-mile long oil slick 120 miles off the coast of Cape Ca Mau - the most southerly point of Vietnam's mainland. *
A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted late on Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were each between six and nine miles long.
But there are *growimng concerns that this was a terrorist attack...* (via NBC News,)
Luigi Maraldi, 37, was the only Italian on a passenger manifest released by the airline after the jet disappeared over the South China Sea.
?But his father, Walter Maraldi, told NBC News from Cesena, Italy:* “Luigi called us early this morning to reassure us he was fine, but we didn’t know about the accident. Thank God he heard about it before us.”*
Luigi Maraldi was on vacation in Thailand, the father said. *He said that Luigi Maraldi’s passport was stolen one year ago.*
*The foreign ministry of Austria confirmed to NBC News that police had made contact with a citizen who was also on the passenger list, and who reported his passport stolen two years ago while traveling in Asia.*
Reported by Zero Hedge 10 hours ago.