Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Hijacked, Official Confirms

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101. Our TSA/Customs is one of the national organizations that have been using the database.

It's not just the border police. That's how, out of 800 million checks annually around the world, 250 million of them have been done in the U.S.

The new experiment is letting private entities also use the database. In some other countries, the government hasn't started using the Interpol database, so Interpol is going to try letting private airlines handle it instead.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/10/travel/malaysia-airlines-stolen-passports/

The United States searches the database more than 250 million times annually, the United Kingdom more than 120 million times annually and the United Arab Emirates more than 50 million times annually, Interpol said. (Some 300,000 passports are lost or stolen each year in the United States, according to the U.S. State Department, which collects reports of stolen passports and sends them to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Interpol.)

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection vets all travelers booked on flights to, from and heading through the United States through the Advanced Passenger Information System.

It conducts a thorough review of all relevant domestic and international criminal databases, including Interpol's, for any issues of concern. This review includes reports of stolen documents.

"If Malaysia Airlines and all airlines worldwide were able to check the passport details of prospective passengers against Interpol's database, then we would not have to speculate whether stolen passports were used by terrorists to board MH 370," Interpol's Noble said.