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     US Navy Sending Sensitive Equipment to Aid in Malaysia Airline Search

   The U.S. Navy says it is sending a black box detector to an area of the
   southern Indian Ocean to aid in the search of a Malaysia Airlines jet,
   missing for more than two weeks.
   The U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement Monday that the "Towed
   Pinger Locator" has highly sensitive listening capability so that if
   the wreck is located, it can hear the black box pinger down to a depth
   of about 6,100 meters. Black box is the common term for a plane`s
   flight recorders, which contain detailed information about what takes
   place on an aircraft.
   The search for the missing Malaysian passenger jet proved futile again
   Monday, despite a new French report of possible debris from the plane`s
   wreckage floating in the Indian Ocean.
   Planes and ships from several countries searched the remote waters
   2,500 kilometers southwest of Australia for a fourth day Sunday, but
   found nothing of significance.
   France reported picking up satellite-generated radar echoes of possible
   debris in the southern Indian Ocean, similar to earlier satellite photo
   images collected by Australia and China. That led Australian Prime
   Minister Tony Abbott to voice the hope that a breakthrough is possible
   to find the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard.
   A search plane spotted debris on Saturday, including a wooden shipping
   pallet, although it was not clear whether the pallet came from the
   aircraft or a passing ship. A New Zealand military plane that diverted
   to the location found only seaweed.
   The plane disappeared while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
   There has been no evidence so far of what happened to the jet.
   Investigators are not ruling out anything, including catastrophic
   mechanical failure, pilot sabotage and terrorism. They say it is
   possible 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 seven million square kilometers, from Kazakhstan to
   the southern Indian Ocean.
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