Government officials on Wednesday said Malaysia had sent a fresh request to India to help in the new designated search area stretching 5,000 nautical miles southwards from Jakarta. "One P-8I is already on stand-by at the naval air station at Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu, while another C-130J is positioned at Port Blair," said an official.
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"Both planes, with long endurance, can scan the designated area with their radars, electro-optic and infra-red sensors. They are likely to begin operations from Thursday morning to cover the area spanning 5,000 nautical miles from Jakarta towards Antarctica," he added.
India had earlier joined the ongoing hunt by over 25 countries for the missing Malaysian Airlines 777-200ER aircraft by deploying six warships and several planes to search an area spanning over 250,000 sq km in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.
However, the Indian search operations were suspended after Kuala Lumpur decided to rethink and redirect the efforts on Sunday, with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak also calling PM Manmohan Singh to request for technical help and radar data to corroborate the possible paths taken by flight MH370.
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The Indian military establishment has already rejected the possibility that the jetliner, hijacked or otherwise, could have flown over the Indian mainland after been "diverted" to Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan in Central Asia, as earlier reported by TOI.
This came after Razak on Saturday declared the missing plane's last communication with a satellite suggested it could have been "deliberately diverted", after its transponders were switched off, into "two possible corridors or arcs".
The northern one was identified as stretching from northern Thailand to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, while the southern one from Indonesia to southern Indian Ocean. Indian officials, however, believe that MH370 in all probability went down in the southern Indian Ocean after being diverted and flying close to the Malacca Strait.
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