Mar 16, 2014, 5:32 am
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This is ARCHIVE WEEK #1 (8 - 14 March UTC) of older posts from the original thread, MH 370 KUL-PEK Missing: now Search and Recovery [PLEASE SEE WIKI].
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MH 370 KUL-PEK Missing: 8 - 14 Mar 2014 UTC - ARCHIVE WEEK #1
Mar 9, 2014, 1:38 am
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Were those tickets for some sort stop or short return from Beijing? The reason I question that is because of the visas that these passports would have needed........ It seems strange because I remember it took quite alot to get my Chinese visa when we visited China. Unless these passports were targeted because they already had longterm Multi entry visas?
Last edited by NWIFlyer; Mar 9, 2014 at 1:43 am Reason: Clarify 72 hrs must be in area entered
Mar 9, 2014, 1:44 am
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A french newspaper is quoting the head of the Malaysian air force, General Rodzali Daud, saying that the plane maybe was turning back to KUL.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/20...-demi-tour.php
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/20...-demi-tour.php
Mar 9, 2014, 1:47 am
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Not sure what happened, buy my post reads as follows:
"Most OECD country citizens with passports can visit China visa free in select cities for 72 hours or less when demonstrating they are transiting in such a way that allows for such a transit or visit."
You indeed detailed the proper condition that they are "transiting in such a way that allows for such a transit or visit".
Mar 9, 2014, 1:49 am
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Re. the terrorism possibility, surely by now the group involved would have claimed responsibility?
Mar 9, 2014, 1:51 am
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Another press conference was held, and MAS has confirmed that two passports did not belong to two of the passengers on MH370.
The stolen passports were linked to two tickets that were purchased at the same time, and the ticket numbers only differ by one number (one ends with 99 and the next ends with 00). @flyingwithfish reports that two passengers who used the stolen passports were flying: KUL-PEK-CPH and KUL-PEK-FRA.
http://airchive.com/blog/2014/03/07/...ampaign=buffer
The stolen passports were linked to two tickets that were purchased at the same time, and the ticket numbers only differ by one number (one ends with 99 and the next ends with 00). @flyingwithfish reports that two passengers who used the stolen passports were flying: KUL-PEK-CPH and KUL-PEK-FRA.
http://airchive.com/blog/2014/03/07/...ampaign=buffer
Mar 9, 2014, 1:51 am
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Were those tickets for some sort stop or short return from Beijing? The reason I question that is because of the visas that these passports would have needed........ It seems strange because I remember it took quite alot to get my Chinese visa when we visited China. Unless these passports were targeted because they already had longterm Multi entry visas?
Mar 9, 2014, 1:53 am
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Floating object is "yellow".
Hmmm...maybe it's not the plane, after all.
Hmmm...maybe it's not the plane, after all.
Mar 9, 2014, 1:59 am
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US 7th fleet's twitter account says MH-60 from the USS Pinckney and P-3C Orion based in Kadena, Okinawa reached the search area ~1 hour ago.
https://twitter.com/US7thFleet/statu...70122939494400
https://twitter.com/US7thFleet/statu...70122939494400
Mar 9, 2014, 1:59 am
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Mar 9, 2014, 3:00 am
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Given this flight was overwhelmingly Chinese nationals and there are plenty of Chinese airlines flying out of SE Asia that anti-Chinese terrorists could target, I have doubt that anti-Chinese terrorists would disavow responsibility for such MH flight disaster merely because of worry about "additional nations looking for them".
Mar 9, 2014, 3:02 am
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Mar 9, 2014, 3:02 am
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If you are travelling on an European passport from Malaysia to South Korea you could potentially (and likely) be required to show proof of further departure from South Korea to a country where you can stay as long as you want, whether it is your home country (in this case the European Union) or your country of residence if outside the EU. That could potentially lead to further questioning at the airport in KUL. Bear in mind that South Korean authorities could always refuse entrance to someone with no proof of departure... so in this case Malaysia Airlines should fly back that person from Seoul to Kuala Lumpur.
So the easiest way to avoid any question is to buy a ticket to the EU (Amsterdam is this case), where an Austrian/Italian could legally stay as long a he wishes. I am a EU-passport holder and I have entered Europe through quite a few countries other than mine and I have never ever been questioned of why at my point of departure (which would be as "weird" as someone from California flying from Paris to New York, let's say, and the person at the counter at CDG asking him or her why is flying to NY... as far as it is his country... why should he care?).