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July 08, 2014

Malaysia to deploy more equipment in MH370 search
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) July 06, 2014
Malaysia will send more equipment to the southern Indian Ocean to join the search for Flight MH370 which went missing four months ago, a minister said Sunday. Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said a Malaysian navy ship equipped with a multi-beam echo sounder - a device to map the ocean floor - would set sail on August 4 for the deep-sea search zone far off western Australia. State energy firm Petronas, together with Deftech and Phoenix International, would deploy a towed device called a s ... read more

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