BRUMMITT,
EILEEN NG and CHRIS. "Vietnam Spots Oil Slicks in Hunt for Missing
Jet."Yahoo! News. Yahoo!, 30 Jan. 0000. Web. 08 Mar. 2014. http://news.yahoo.com/vietnam-spots-oil-slicks-hunt-missing-jet-124630545--finance.html
Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks in the area where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people on board had crashed. A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted late Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were ten and fifteen kilometers away from each other. There was no confirmation that the slicks were related to the missing plane. Two-thirds of the missing plane's passengers were from China, while others were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe. The plane lost all contact and radar signal one minute before it entered Vietnam's air traffic control. The flight data and the cockpit voice recorders are equipped with pingers that emit ultrasonic signals that can be detected underwater. Under good conditions, the signals can be detected from several hundred miles away.
Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks in the area where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people on board had crashed. A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted late Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were ten and fifteen kilometers away from each other. There was no confirmation that the slicks were related to the missing plane. Two-thirds of the missing plane's passengers were from China, while others were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe. The plane lost all contact and radar signal one minute before it entered Vietnam's air traffic control. The flight data and the cockpit voice recorders are equipped with pingers that emit ultrasonic signals that can be detected underwater. Under good conditions, the signals can be detected from several hundred miles away.
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