MAKASSAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - A U.S. navy ship helping hunt for an Indonesian plane missing for nine days should be able to shed more light later on Wednesday on a metal object found on the sea bed, an Indonesian navy commander said.
The search for an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 that vanished in bad weather on Jan. 1 with 102 people aboard has chiefly focused on large metal objects, possibly wreckage, detected on Monday by Indonesian ships using sonar in deep water north of Mamuju in west Sulawesi.