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SINGAPORE: Items resembling an emergency slide and plane door have been spotted during the search for missing Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501.
A search aircraft has spotted debris 105 miles off Pangkalanbun, and a chopper will be despatched for a clearer look, according to reports on Tuesday.
"10 bigger items and countless smaller items. These look like items that are not usually seen on sea surface," MetroTV cited two-star air force officer Dwi Putranto.
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PANGKALUN BUN: Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted during an aerial search for missing Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials said.
“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 on Tuesday.
“The position is 10km (six miles) 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 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. – AF
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