Aalbersberg said the work focused on three sites that had previously been inaccessible because of fighting in the region between Russian-backed separatists and government forces
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The police said a retired couple found the package and immediately sent it to local police, who on Tuesday delivered it to the offices of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in Canberra
The Malaysia Airlines plane, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, apparently crashed near the town of Snizhe, according to a report from Interfax news agency which could not immediately be confirmed
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released a report detailing evidence of a power outage occurring on the plane less than 90 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur
Abbott said in Sydney that it was highly unlikely that searchers would find any debris on the ocean surface
Four aircraft have been sent to the area after a “possible indication of debris” was detected in satellite imagery, said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa), which is co-ordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean
“We have been using four helicopters and two naval vessels to search at islands and maritime zone near Vietnamese border since on Tuesday but have not found any trace of the missing flight MH370,” Vice Admiral Tea Sokha, Commander of the Cambodian Maritime Space, told Xinhua over the telephone. “Search operations are still going on
“We are still clueless,” the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media
Two US security officials said the Malaysian government still had not invited the Federal Bureau of Investigation to send a team to Kuala Lumpur
The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip