The United States announced it was sending the USS Sampson destroyer, joining at least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters in the search for the jet carrying 162 people, said Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo.
A Chinese frigate was also on the way, while Singapore said it was sending two underwater beacon detectors to try to detect pings from the plane’s all-important cockpit voice and flight data recorders.
Two other copters were hundreds of kilometers east over the smaller islands of Bangka and Belitung.
“[…] we have not yet found any signal or indication of the plane’s whereabouts,” …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
