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Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane: US Navy ship quits search for the airliner

Updated on: 18 March,2014 08:56 AM IST  | 
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Destroyer USS Kidd will return to its normal duty after helping search the missing Malaysian airliner

Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane: US Navy ship quits search for the airliner

Washington: The US Navy ship that has been helping search for the missing Malaysian airliner is dropping out of the hunt, US military officials said.



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The Navy's 7th Fleet determined that long-range naval aircraft are a more efficient means of looking for the plane or its debris, now that the search area has broadened into the southern Indian Ocean.


Long-range Navy P-3 and P-8 surveillance aircraft remain involved in the search, Cmdr William Marks, a spokesman for the 7th Fleet, said in an emailed statement.

The USS Kidd, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been searching in the Indian Ocean, will return to its normal duties. The Malaysian Airlines plane has been missing for more than a week.

No debris or wreckage associated with the aircraft has been found. The P-8 Poseidon and the P-3 Orion can cover up to 38,850 square kilometres in one nine-hour flight.

The aircraft also are equipped with advanced surface search radars and electro-optical sensors and can fly at low altitudes if visual identification is needed.

The decision was made in consultation with the government of Malaysia. A Pentagon spokesman said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Malaysian Minister of Defense Hishammuddin Tun Hussein yesterday evening that the United States is fully committed to working with Malaysia to locate the plane.

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