Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29; and Pouri Nourmohammadi, 18, have been identified as the two men using fake passports aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The two men were Iranians who used the passports to fly from Malaysia to Europe. Their tickets were purchased by another Iranian, officials said.

To fly out of Malaysia, Reza and Nourmohammadi used passports that were stolen in Thailand -- a booming market for stolen passports. The passports belonged to citizens of Italy and Austria.

The Italian, Luigi Maraldi, 37, told reporters he'd reported his passport stolen in August.
The Austrian, Christian Kozel, 30, had his stolen in July 2013.

Authorities don't know yet if Reza and Nourmohammadi were involved in the passports' theft or how they came to possess them. On Saturday, Reza used the Italian's passport; Nourmohammadi used the Austrian's.
But authorities believe its more of a human trafficking case than a terrorist issue as both  names are not in any interpol database.

Meanwhile, the search for the missing airline is now in its fourth day as the victims’s families and the world at large anxiously await news of the aircraft.

There have been claims that phones of passengers on board were still connecting though with no response from them.