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                   Malaysia Says Still No Sign of Missing Jet

   Malaysian officials say there is still no confirmation that debris
   detected by a satellite in the Indian Ocean several days ago is from a
   missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
   Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Saturday that his biggest
   concern is that if the debris is not found and identified, the search
   will have to go back to the two corridors in a "huge and massive area."
   Earlier Saturday, Australia dispatched search planes for a third
   consecutive day to search the remote southern Indian Ocean for debris
   possibly from the Boeing 777, now lost for two full weeks.
   The international team hunting for the plane returned Saturday to an
   area about 2,500 kilometers southwest of Perth where an Australian
   satellite spotted two large objects earlier in the week.
   Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters the search
   will continue until officials determine that further efforts would be
   futile.
   The searches have come up with no sign of wreckage in the area.
   Australia has cautioned that the objects might have no connection to
   the plane carrying 239 passengers and crew.
   Hishammuddin asked the U.S. Defense Department Friday for underwater
   surveillance equipment to help with the search.
   A Pentagon spokesman did not say what equipment the U.S. might provide,
   but that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is considering the request
   and whether it would be helpful in looking for the aircraft.
   The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared two weeks ago during a flight
   from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There has been no firm evidence, so far,
   of what happened to the jet.
   Investigators are not ruling out anything, including catastrophic
   mechanical failure, terrorism or pilot suicide. They say it is possible
   that someone with knowledge of planes diverted it far off course.
   Twenty-six nations have been hunting for the plane across an area
   covering more than 7 million square kilometers, from Kazakhstan to the
   southern Indian Ocean.
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