The report about Missing Malaysian Airliner
1. Time
Stolen Passports Used on Missing Malaysian Airliner
Malaysian officials say they are not discounting any theory, including terrorism
①It has been a week of lost innocence for China. On March 1, a brutal massacre by machete and dagger-wielding assailants claimed 29 lives in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, bringing the specter of terror to a nation unused to such horrifying episodes. The Chinese government has identified the attackers as separatists from the northwestern region of Xinjiang who were intent on joining a global jihadi movement. Then a week later, tragedy descended again. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 destined for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur disappeared without a trace in the early hours of March 8. 154 of the 227 passengers were listed as coming from mainland China or Taiwan, with the second-largest nationality group being 38 Malaysians.
②Malaysia is a popular holiday destination for Chinese, particularly during the wintry, smoggy season in China. Late last year, Malaysia’s tourist authority predicted 2 million Chinese would visit in 2014. Among the Chinese believed to have boarded the flight are many holiday-seekers and 29 members of an artist delegation from Sichuan province who were taking part in an exhibit in Kuala Lumpur. Others on the plane manifest included a group of 20 Malaysian and Chinese employees of a Texas semiconductor firm. Several expatriates living in Beijing are believed to have been on the flight as well, including students at the French school and a Canadian couple. Four Americans including an infant were also thought to have been on board.
③With the plane still missing, the focus remains on search and rescue operations that are centered in waters off Vietnam. But flight experts, who are working with a frightening paucity of information, have concentrated on two possible explanations of what went wrong: a catastrophic mechanical failure of the airplane — such as what happened to Air France Flight 447 in 2009 over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on the jetliner — or some kind of malign human intervention. “I would say right now that the probability of terrorism is low but it should not be discounted,” says Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. “The investigation needs to be carried out with all possibilities considered: an act of sabotage, crime or terrorism, as well as mechanical failure.” Malaysian officials say they are not discounting any theory, including terrorism.
Four flew with false ID aboard Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished over South China Sea
①BEIJING — Emergency teams expanded their search early Sunday for a Malaysia Airlines flight that is presumed to have crashed in the Gulf of Thailand off Vietnam with 239 people aboard, including up to four that the Malaysian government said may have boarded with false documents, according to reports.
②In a search operation involving at least a half-dozen nations that’s now lasted for more than a day, authorities have turned up no clear signs of wreckage, but Malaysia Airlines said it was “fearing the worst.”
③The information about the suspect passengers has led to speculation about terrorism and added to the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a red-eye carrying passengers from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing that vanished from radar after midnight Saturday (Friday afternoon EST).
3.The Guardian
Malaysia Airlines: passengers with stolen passports booked tickets together – live
The Guardian’s southeast Asia correspondent,Kate Hodel, reports that an Italian man whose passport was falsely used to board the missing plane has spoken to Thai media.
Luigi Maraldisaid his passport was stolen when he visited the Thai island of Phuket on 22 July last year,according to the Phuket online paper Phuketwan.
The site reports:
Mr Maraldi said he arrived on Phuket on March 1 and was planning to leave on March 15. On a holiday last year, he said, he lost his passport in a deal that went wrong at a Patong motorcycle rent shop.
The woman who ran the shop told Mr Maraldi that she had given his passport to an Italian man who ‘'said Mr Maraldi was his husband.’
A second man, AustrianChristian Kozel, whose passport was also falsely used to board the flight, had his passport stolen in the same part of Phuket 18 months earlier, according to media reports citing Austrian authorities.
The news agency AFP reports that investigators from theUS National Transportation Safety Boardtraveled to Asia last night to assist the investigation.
The civil aviation body said in a statement:
Because of the lengthy travel time from the United States, the NTSB has sent a team of investigators, accompanied by technical advisers from Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration, to the area so they will be positioned to offer US assistance.
Once the location of the airplane is determined, International Civil Aviation Organization protocols will determine which country will lead the investigation.
The Guardian’sTania Braniganhas more detail on the movements of the two suspect passengers who boarded the missing plane using stolen passports.
Both passengers used Thai baht to purchase their travel tickets on 6 March, a day before the flight took off from Kuala Lumpur destined for Beijing.
The pair, who booked tickets with consecutive numbers, were due to fly to Beijing, then wait for around 10 hours before flying to Amsterdam. Once they arrived in Amsterdam, one of the passengers was due to travel on to Frankfurt and the other to Copenhagen.
SUMMARY
About the Time
First, the Time associated the brutal massacre happened in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming last week with thisMissing Malaysian Airliner tragedy. Second, it analyzed Malaysia’s tourist attraction and the passenger’s identity. Third, it quoted the flight experts’ opinion. They have concentrated on two possible explanations of what went wrong. From the three parts, we can totally understand the whole thing from the beginning to the end, and we also related to the other things that making the news become more completed. But it may deviate the theme too much, it took a long time for us to read the thing we really want to know---aboutStolen Passports Used on Missing Malaysian Airliner
About the Washington Post
It make up the defects of The Time . From the beginning, it directly quoted that“the authorities have turned up no clear signs of wreckage, but Malaysia Airlines said‘ it was fearing the worst.’ ” This could make the readers know the things that happened immediately. Though it may look like short compared to The Time .But I think for the news which happens so quickly today, it just what we need. The Time may suit for the depth reports.
About the Guardian
It’s writing style is related to the time line . Once it received the latest news , it sent on website immediately. This reporting method did not have the fixed issue ,so it may not have it’s own style.
In a whole , among the three newspaper, I prefer the Washington Post
