of many that are concerning. so many simultaneous absolutely aspects of the vest dwags are going to go forward, such as what caused the plane to come out of the sky and crash. if it did crash into the ocean, did the pilot fly it in on purpose? did it have a catastrophic mechanical failure? was it sabotaged? an explosion? terrorism? that is a factor for the plane itself. but in terms of the passengers, the authorities of many coun countries, every country listed as having a citizen on that plane, will be working together to verify the identity of every single person. so, that means and the majority of the persons were more than 150 chinese citizens, so that will require a lot of work on the part of the chinese to verify each person s identity listed as being on the aircraft as well as all of the other passengers including the americans that were on that flight. so, identifying each person, identifying all the aspects concerning the aircraft are
no question. from the beginning it raises questions because a plane disappears in the skies, on its ascent, or near the end of its descent without any distress call. it s early, though. so whether mechanical or another explanation, you re not going to get any definitive answers now. certainly two passengers onboard. one using and austrian passport. another italian. we re hearing from austrian and italian authorities. the two identified were not on the plane, are safe and sound in home countries traveling elsewhere and prorted the passports stolen fwop passengers were traveling with stolen passports and that raises questions. why would you be traveling under a false identity? you know, it s too early to say if there s terrorism. they re aware of the reports of stolen passports. they re tracking them.
as this point, i m quoting, no nextism to terrorism but there s an explanation they re exploring. i talked we tom fuentes of the fbi formerly and he says all of these arms of the investigation will be taking place simultaneously. trying to locate the plane, whether the oil slicks that the vietnamese authorities say they saw is indeed a marker for where this plane may have gone down. to what extent will u.s. authorities try to be involved here, in not only trying to figure out this whole passport discrepancy, if that really is a factor in addition to trying to disconcern where this plane is? what happened? how it fell out of the sky? they re certainly be involved on a number of levels. one, it s a boeing airplane. the company will be involved, to look and see, to share information, there there was