re: #88 NJDhockeyfan

Daily Mirror reports this as well.

An extraordinary story has just emerged from Italy in relation to missing flight MH 370.

Louis Maraldi, 37, from Cesena, was named as one of the passengers on board the plane.

However, reports in Italy have confirmed that he was NOT on board and that he had reported his passport stolen last August.

Mr Maraldi’s parents have spoken to him in Thailand and he is ‘fine’, news agency ANSA reports.

The revelation suggests that one of the 227 passengers on board the missing flight was using a stolen passport.

This, if confirmed, changes the whole nature of the investigation. It goes from a potential mechanical problem to one where terrorism is at play. Authorities will have to check the tapes in Kuala Lampur and see who exactly got on board, and confirmation of who was on board.