(VOV) -Vietnam has dispatched CASA aircraft to re-check areas where Chinese satellites showed objects that potentially could be debris from the missing Malaysian jet.
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On March 13, Vietnamese rescue forces resumed search efforts for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after satellite images of possible debris in the East Sea were reported by China.
The aircraft and naval ship HQ 637 of Vietnam were sent to the location Chinese satellite reported sighting unknown objects in the waters.
Earlier, China’s State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense announced the discovery of three suspected floating objects in sea area between Vietnam and Malaysia.
Four Vietnamese planes were also deployed to suspected area to scouring for the lost jetliner with a focus on U Minh forest and the eastern part of southernmost Ca Mau province.
Deputy Minister of Transport Pham Quy Tieu said Vietnam always announces all of what it has discovered from the missing jet, and spares no efforts in the search and rescue work.
He called for Malaysia to provide updated information on the case and actively cooperated with Vietnamese agencies in the hunt.
On March 12, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Vietnam People’s Army, Lieut. Gen Vo Van Tuan affirmed that Vietnam is maintaining its search for the missing Malaysian aircraft.
The search area is now widened both the east of the plane’s last-known location and to remote areas on the mainland, he said.
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