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Area covering 1,575 square nautical miles will be scoured by three vessels equipped with underwater detection equipment, said Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar.
KUALA LUMPUR: In Day 6 of the search for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, the search zone has moved 30 nautical miles east from the previous day, while an area covering 1,575 square nautical miles has been established as the “Most Probable Area” where the wreckage will be found, according to the Malaysian Chief of Navy.
“This is the most likely area of the missing plane,” said Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar on Twitter on Friday morning (Jan 2).
Three ships – KN Baruna Jaya 1, KN Hidayat and MV Geo Survey - have been tasked to The Most Probable Area, which spans 45 by 35 nautical miles, he said. All three vessels are equipped with underwater marine detection systems, including side-scan sonar and pinger-locators, to help search for the missing plane.
Also on Friday morning, France's air accident authority, BEA, announced that it will send a specialist black box search team to assist in the search. The team is expected to arrive at the search zone on Friday.
The crash investigation agency will bring detection equipment including hydrophones to the search zone, in the hope of detecting signals from the flight recorder - commonly known as the black box - from the missing AirAsia plane, said the BEA.