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Missing Malaysian plane mystery: 14 countries including India involved in search with 43 ships, 58 aircraft

New Delhi/Kuala Lumpur:  As the search operations for MH370 Malayasia Airlines aircraft continued for the eighth consecutive day on Saturday, Indian defence forces deployed two P-8I  maritime reconnaisance aircraft, one C-130J transporters and two Dornier

India TV News Desk Updated on: March 15, 2014 22:03 IST


Although the aircraft was flying virtually blind to air traffic controllers at this point, onboard equipment continued to send "pings" to satellites.

The prime minister said the last confirmed signal between the plane and a satellite came at 8:11 a.m. -- 7 hours and 31 minutes after takeoff. This was more than five hours later than the previous time given by Malaysian authorities as the possible last contact.

Airline officials have said the plane had enough fuel to fly for up to about eight hours.

"The investigations team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after this last point of contact," Najib said.

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