During 8 days, from March 8 through 15,  A maritime reconnaissance aircraft CASA. On the morning of March 8, the Office of the National Committee for Search and Rescue of the Ministry of Defense received the information that a Boeing 777-200 (number MH 370) of Malaysia carrying 239 people to Beijing (China), lost signal at 0h21 on March 8 when it was about 120 nautical miles from the Ca Mau Cape of Vietnam. Upon receiving the information, the committee instructed the As the first country to search for the missing jet, At 15h30 on March 8, the AN26 aircraft No. 286 detected two tracks like oil slicks with a length of 15-20 km, about 140 km south of Tho Chu island. Immediately, the ships HQ 954 and HQ 637 left In the first day, On March 9, the AN 26 aircraft No. 286 discovered an oil slick with the size of 10 x 80 km, about 80 km from the oil slicks detected on the first day. At 11am, seaplane DHC6 joined the search; a team of divers were ready to work. Then seaplane DHC6 found a white, rectangle-shaped object with a circular hole in the middle, suspected as the aircraft exit door, about 30 nautical miles from Tho Chu Island (Kien Giang province). Vessel 774 KN was sent to the site to verify the object but the ship did not find it. 17pm the same day, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, a meeting of the National Committee for Search and Rescue and the Committee of Civil Aviation Security, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai. Mr. Hai instructed to carry out the search 24/24, to extend the scope and to allow foreign forces to perform the search in the On the second day, six aircraft (three AN26, two Mi171 and one DHC6) made eight flights and nine ships of all kinds continued the search. 8am on March 10, Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army was present at the Operation Center of the National Committee for Search and Rescue to guide the search forces. The High Commands of the Military Regions 5, 7, 9, the Border Guard, the Navy and the Coast Guard were mobilized to detect traces related to the missing aircraft both at sea and on land. At 10h20am on March 10, aircraft DHC6 detected a square-shaped object in orange color, which was suspected as a buoy, about 96 nautical miles from Tho Chu Island. At 1.30pm, 2.10pm the same day, a plane informed the Hong Kong Air Control Center of the detection of a large number of metal debris in the sea, south of O Cap Cape in Vung Tau about 50 nautical miles. Aircraft and ships were sent to verify but they did not find these things. On the 3rd day, On March 11, In addition to the two CASA planes, On March 12, the Vietnam Navy performed four flights while vessels searched along the L637 air route ( On the 6th day of the search, there were still no traces of the missing plane. All objects found were not related to the plane. A Chinese Tu154 aircraft, three ships and two aircraft of After several days searching on an area of over 80,000 km2 but still could not find any traces of the missing plane, on the morning of March 14, the Ministry of Defense asked the Navy, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the Border Guard and the Military Zones 5, 7 and 9 to shift from active search to maintaining search. On the 8th day, At 1pm the same day, when the search was taking place, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that it halted the search on the Tran Cham, |
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