Kuala Lumpur: International police agency Interpol on Sunday said that at least two passports recorded as lost or stolen in its database were used by passengers on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight, and said it was "examining additional suspect passports" on Sunday.
Interpol said no checks of its database had been made by any country on an Austrian and an Italian passport between the time that they were stolen and the departure of the flight.
"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," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Malaysia also said it will review the security protocols for air travellers at the airports.
Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said that security protocols would be "enhanced" following the review if it was necessary to do so. "We will review all security protocols and if needed we will enhance them if necessary, because we still do not know the cause of the incident," Najib told reporters here.
Najib said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot had offered two PC Orion aircraft to help in the search and rescue operation.
The Boeing 777-200 Flight MH370 carrying 227 passengers on board, including five Indians and one Indian-origin Canadian, and 12 crew members, went missing on Saturday over the South China Sea en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
The mystery of the missing plane continued the second day today as a massive multinational search mission failed to locate the jet, even as investigators feared the worst and did not rule out the possibility of a terror link.
(with additional information from PTI)
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