. >> "america tonight," sarah ho,wh yorvetion join yjoins us. is this very important? >> yes, because passengers boarded flights a million times without their documents being proper reply examined. this has been a problem for years, and only ahandful of airlines are checking for these lost or stolen documents. if you add that up, with this database it was searched about 800 million times joie, but only 1 search was conducted by the united arab emirates alone. this is a problem. >> wouldn't there be a computerized system to be able to check this all over the world? >> that's the question, being asked with the plane itself, where is the plane and why can't we find it? >> thank you, "america tonight"'s correspondent sarah hoy. >> you have seen this many times before. i think for those of us who are laymen you would think, an disappear? >> it is a mystery. it reminds us of the air france disaster, flying over the atlantic. it took a long time to find wreckage and what happened to it. we have this plane, missing, on radar coverage. in that area there is no radar coverage un