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Malaysian defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein stands near an underwater probe aboard the Malaysian contracted vehicle, GO Phoenix, docked at Fremantle Port near Perth, Australia. Photo: EPA

Australia asks Indonesia to be on the lookout for debris from Flight MH370

Australian authorities have asked their Indonesia counterparts be on the lookout for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, according to local reports yesterday.

Australian authorities have asked their Indonesia counterparts be on the lookout for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, according to local reports yesterday.

"It is possible that some materials may have drifted to the coastline of Indonesia," an operational report released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in charge of coordinating the search efforts for the missing aircraft said.

The report also notes that drift modelling undertaken by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority suggests any floating debris "is far more likely to have travelled west, away from the coastline of Australia".

Flight MH370, with 239 people aboard, was bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur when it vanished over the South China Sea on March 8. No debris from the flight has so far been recovered.

An extensive search has been undertaken by Australian-led authorities, with more than 1,200 sq km of sea floor combed in a new round of operations that began recently.

This followed several months of surveying of the underwater terrain by two contract vessels.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Indonesia asked to look out for flight wreckage
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