The Royal Malaysian Navy corvette KD Terengganu and a United States (US) Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney conduct a coordinated air and sea search for a missing Malaysian Airlines jet in the Gulf of Thailand on March 12, 2014. - Reuters file photo
TOKYO: The US Navy said on Monday that it was deploying a black box locator to an area of the southern Indian Ocean being scoured for the missing Malaysian jet, following a cluster of weekend debris sightings.
The navy called the move a "precautionary measure" in case those sightings confirm the location of the aircraft, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
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