AP
A U.S. Navy plane P-8 Poseidon takes off from Perth Airport on the route
to rejoin the search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370 in Perth on Sunday.
The
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised
to talk to the media, said Indonesian authorities said the plane did not
show up on their military radar.
The plane could
have deliberately flown around Indonesian airspace to avoid detection,
or may have coincidentally travelled out of radar range, he said.
The
revelation came as searchers for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet
intensified in the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether a few
brief sounds picked up by underwater equipment came from the plane’s
black boxes, whose battery-powered pingers are on the verge of dying
out.
Meanwhile, Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination
Centre (JACC) said Monday that up to nine military planes, three civil
planes and 14 ships will assist in search for missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370.
The search area is expected to be approximately 234,000 sq km.
Royal Australian Navy’s ship Ocean Shield is continuing investigations in its own area.
HMS Echo was en route to assist the Chinese vessel Haixun 01, which detected pulse signals in the Indian Ocean.
A
Chinese ship picked up an electronic pulsing signal Friday and again
Saturday, and an Australian ship carrying sophisticated deep-sea
acoustic equipment detected a signal in a different area Sunday.
Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 vanished mysteriously about an hour after taking
off from Kuala Lumpur shortly after midnight March 8.
The
Boeing 777—200ER was scheduled to land in Beijing the same day. The 227
passengers on board included five Indians, 154 Chinese and 38
Malaysians.
Despite extensive scouring of the remote
southern Indian Ocean area by planes and ships off the coast of Perth,
where the plane is believed to have crashed, no trace has been found.
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