MAKASSAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - A U.S. navy ship is set to join the search on Tuesday for an Indonesian airliner with 102 people aboard missing for the past eight days, with the hunt focusing on a large metal object detected deep on the sea bed.
The object was discovered on Monday by Indonesian ships with sonar technology about 1,000 metres under the ocean north of Mamuju in West Sulawesi province.
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