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Singapore ready to deploy specialists to assist in search of missing AirAsia plane

Published Mon, Dec 29, 2014 · 06:50 AM

SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore on Monday said Indonesia has accepted Singapore's offer of two teams of specialists, and two sets of underwater locator beacon detectors to assist in locating the flight data recorders of the missing Indonesia AirAsia aircraft, QZ8501.

The four specialists from the Singapore Ministry of Transport's Air Accident Investigation Bureau and their equipment are ready to be deployed, pending the Indonesian authorities' activation.

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