10 March 2014 (18:25 UTC-07 Tango 09 March 2014)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712
The 20 employees reported as working for IBM work specifically for Texas based FreescaleSemiconductor. At least one MH370 passenger did work directly for IBM.
In 2007 FreescaleSemiconductor announced they were working with IBM on data gathering “semiconductor research and development”. It’s known that at least one IBM employee on the flight was a Technical Storage Executive for IBM in Malaysia.
Mitch Haws, of FreescaleSemiconductor, described the company’s employees, on MH370, as “….people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people. It’s definitely a loss for the company.” Haws also stated the employees were involved in “sophisticated work”.
Chinese officials are reporting that the family of one of the MH370 passengers tried calling their cell phone, after the crash, and it worked! However, nobody answered and the signal eventually cut off.
Chinese officials are now reporting that one of the Chinese passengers was using a fake ID. The man who belongs to the ID was found alive and well in Fujian Province. The man says he’s never lost his identification documents, so Chinese officials are concerned about how the fake passenger got the man’s ID!
Security camera footage of the two fake passengers who bought consecutive numbered tickets has been turned over to police.
The International Criminal Police Organization (aka ICPO, aka Interpol) is concerned about the fake passports, because their own databases have that info, which is available to airlines and governments. They also backed up the Malaysian Defense Minister’s claim that the passenger list showed numerous other ‘fake’ passengers. So how did the users of the fake passports get away with it?
“Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol’s databases.”-Ronald Noble, Interpol Secretary General
Interpol officials said they are also “…interviewing immigration officials who let the imposters through. Early indications show some sort of a security lapse….”
Malaysian Defence Minister (and acting Transportation Minister), Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, stated that the entire passenger list is suspect: “We will investigate the whole manifest. We will not only target the four people mentioned in the media but all those in the manifest.”
Vietnamese search planes reported what looks to be a door and a section of tail from the missing flight MH370. Indian news sources say the plane might have broken up in flight.
Turns out the Italian who reported his passport stolen in Thailand, which was then used by a fake passenger, was found to be still in Thailand. He was found by reporters from a Thai newspaper, and was picked up by Thai police for questioning.
The Italian says his passport was stolen when he rented a motorcycle in Thailand. The rental shop owners demanded he give his passport as collateral, but when he returned the motorcycle they told him they gave his passport to somebody else by mistake. He says he returned to Italy to get temporary documents then went back to Thailand.
China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Indonesia are now involved in the investigation and search.