Debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have made its way to Indonesia, JACC chief coordinator says, as the search so far fails to turn up any trace of the missing Boeing 777 aircraft.
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Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) chief coordinator said on Friday that there was the potential for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to turn up in Indonesia.
Speaking to media about the latest developments in the search for the plane, JACC Chief Coordinator Judith Zielke said debris could move towards Indonesia.
"To date though, whilst the debris would head into that direction, there hasn't been anything identified in that way, however there was the potential for that debris to have been, to have made its way to Indonesia since June of this year," she said.
Months of searches have failed to turn up any trace of the missing Boeing 777 aircraft, which disappeared on March 8, carrying 239 passengers and crew shortly after taking off from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau Program Director, Peter Foley reiterated that considering the size of the search area it could be months before anything is found.
"I caution that its relatively high resolution, it's not photo quality, but now that we've actually started looking with the side-scan sonar and synthetic aperture sonar, we could find the debris field any day, but the likelihood given the size of the area is, we're in for the long haul, it will take many months," he said.
Zielke added the best people in the world were assisting in the search.
"I can only assure you that the team of experts that have provided advice, as listed by Mr. Foley earlier, are actually the world leaders in this regard, so the best people in the world have actually put their efforts into identifying the search area for us, utilising the small amount of data that actually is available in this particular case. If this was an easy task, we would have also of course very easily located the aircraft," she said.
More than two dozen countries have been involved in the air, sea and underwater search for the Boeing 777.
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