Reports emerge that two Europeans listed on the passenger manifest were not aboard and their passports had been lost or stolen.
Source/Credit: Los Angeles Times
By Julie Makinen and Richard A. Serrano
Reported: March 8, 2014
A massive search was underway Sunday for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, focusing on a spot off the southern coast of Vietnam where two large oil slicks were reported. But there were, so far, no clues to why the China-bound flight vanished without warning with 239 people on board.
Malaysian officials investigating the disappearance said they were not ruling out terrorism — or any other causes — as reports emerged that two Europeans listed on the passenger manifest were not aboard and their passports had been lost or stolen. Who was traveling on those passports, though, remained unclear.
At a news conference Sunday morning, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman of Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation said searchers had "not located anything" and were expanding the search area. He said even the oil slick sighting, reportedly made by a Vietnamese military plane, had not been verified.
In Washington, the FBI said it was opening its own investigation into the plane's disappearance, but officials cautioned that there was no immediate evidence that pointed to terrorism.
"So far, what happened is a mystery," a top U.S. law enforcement official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the investigation.
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