15 March 2014/last updated at 12:50AM
ABOARD THE JINGGANGSHAN: (click here) Eight Chinese vessels on Thursday continued their search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand, combing a total of 34,000 square km, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
The Chinese search and rescue operation for the lost jetliner involved air, water and undersea dimensions, and was expanded to the northwest, southwest and southeast of the South China Sea.On Thursday alone, an area of 16,000 square km was scoured.
The Jinggangshan, which cruised into position on Tuesday, had put all its equipment into full use, including helicopters and steamboats, to find anything related to the missing jetliner.
It was reported that Chinese warships would continue to broaden their search to the northwest in the Gulf of Thailand before considering new plans. Bernama.
The USA is in the Gulf of Thialand.
Release Date: 3/11/2014
By Ensign Brooke Schaffer
USS Kidd Public Affairs
GULF OF THAILAND (NNS) -- The Arleigh Burke-class (click here) guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) was one of the first responders in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that was lost sometime March 8, 2014.
Kidd is among several other Pacific nation naval air and surface platforms conducting the search mission that is being coordinated by the Malaysian government....
The USA is supporting the Australia effort. Vice Admiral Robert Thomas speaks on a video about the search.
4:59 PM Wednesday Mar 19, 2014
The search for a missing Malaysian airliner (click here) has entered its 12th day
as Australia continues to co-ordinate the search in the southern Indian
Ocean, more than 3000 kilometres southwest of Perth.Eleven days after contact was lost with Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew, there has been minimal progress in determining precisely what happened or where the plane ended up.
"We are still clueless at to what happened to the missing plane 12 days on," a Malaysian aviation official told DPA on Wednesday on condition of anonymity....
