interpol manages and maintains the international database on stolen passports, but they claim that in this instance, no country checked with them before the flight, not malaysia, not china. the 2 cases of stolen passports have been in their system for over a year after they were reported stolen in thailand. in fact, millions of passengers zipped thru' airports and immigration checkpoints with fraudulent documents, and countries have been negligent checking details thoroughly. the lack of double counter-checking with the interpol database is rampant. in 2006, 5 years after 9/11, the u.s. only double checked with interpol about 2000 times. 3 years later in 2009 with a new administration, they did so 78 million times!