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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Malaysia MH370: Lessons From the Disaster [Watch (HLS stream): Malaysia MH370: Lessons From the Disaster](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AzvHT45L.m3u8) (2:13)  _Published 2014-04-03. From checking stolen passports to tracking future flights, here are a few on lessons learned from MH370._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:21 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [A Decade After Flight Famously Disappeared, Malaysia May Renew Search for Missing MH370](/video/bpg0ZRBU/) ### A Decade After Flight Famously Disappeared, Malaysia May Renew Search for Missing MH370 [Malaysia Says It's Willing to Restart the Search for the MH370 Flight 5 Years After It Disappeared](/video/QKzc3LDx/) ### Malaysia Says It's Willing to Restart the Search for the MH370 Flight 5 Years After It Disappeared [MH370 Latest: Stolen Passports, But Terrorism Not Likely](/video/sqSTx8zO/) ### MH370 Latest: Stolen Passports, But Terrorism Not Likely --- ## Transcript We can't find it, we're not even sure we're looking in the right place. Because Flight 370's transponder was purposely shut down by someone in the cockpit or failed. Search teams have been left to scour millions of square nautical miles. Tech savvy travelers wonder why, the director of the powerful International Air Transport Association acknowledges the industry must act. We need to be in a position to track aircraft through, through the whole entire length of their flight, even if they, they go outside normal radar coverage and so on. We need to now look at the best way, the most effective way of tracking aircraft, wherever they may happen to be. The agony of the families of those missing only adds urgency to act. You can continuously track one second at a time for for continuously across any trip and know exactly where an airplane is. That is invaluable and in the case of 370, it would have told us whether the plane turned, whether the plane continued straight. And when it stopped emitting altogether. As Flight 370's disappearance became a global talking point, so did weaknesses in security. Millions of travelers allowed to board planes with only minimal checks of their identities including the two men who boarded flight 370 with stolen passports. Let me clarify, the ariline's role is to fly aircraft and carry people, it's governments role to make sure that people aren't traveling on on, on, on fake or stolen or otherwise, other, other invalid passports. Border control is a government activity. Interpol says it takes just seconds to reveal if a passport is among the 40 million known, lost, or stolen, in its database. AETO wants a single harmonized system, so airlines can quickly submit data to governments for screening. These very questions have been raised in the past. But the cost could be high. Some say $ 100, 000 or more per aircraft. It is up to the air travelers themselves to demand the changes. 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