China has offered 21 satellites to help hunt down the Malaysian Boeing 777-200 that went missing March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard.
China said it is searching parts of its territory under the northern corridor of the planned flight path. Chinese officials say there is no evidence that any of the country's citizens on board the missing airliner were involved in terrorism.
Eight Chinese vessels are deployed in the Gulf of Thailand and two more in the Singaporean waters to help out with the hunt. One more vessel has set off and is expected to arrive in Singapore Tuesday night, according to a statement from the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.
Chinese commercial vessels are also helping out in the area surrounding the Strait of Malacca connecting the Andaman Sea, which is west of Thailand, and the South China Sea. China is one of 25 countries searching for the missing Boeing 777-200ER in an area stretching from the south of the Indian Ocean to Central Asia.
However, no traces of the missing plane have yet been found.
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