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http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... es-407489/Malaysia's navy has issued a map showing the seven search sectors for the missing flight QZ8501.
The area extends over a large portion of the Java Sea to the northwest of Belitung Island and west of Borneo.
It is being searched by an international coalition composed of ships and aircraft from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia
The map also gives the location where Indonesian air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft, as well as the aircraft’s intended flight plan.
The map suggests the Airbus A320 aircraft had deviated somewhat to the west of its intended course.
All times stated are UK
Recent live reporting posts
BBC Indonesian service, on board search plane
Posted at 10:16
The weather was very clear and the waters were relatively calm. Search teams saw oil slicks in the water but authorities could not confirm whether these are from the missing AirAsia airliner.
Posted at 10:06
Objects spotted by Australian search planes were not from the missing AirAsia jet, AFP quotes Indonesian officials as saying.
The United States will join the multi-nation mission to find missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, as Indonesian authorities say items resembling an emergency slide and a plane door have been seen in the expanded search area in the Java Sea.
"We spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects which we could not photograph," Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto told a press conference.
"The position is 10 kilometres from the location the plane was last captured by radar," he said.
He displayed 10 photos of objects resembling a plane door, emergency slide and a square box-like object.
An AFP news agency photographer on the same flight that spotted the debris said he had seen objects in the sea resembling a life raft, life jackets and long orange tubes.
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