Chief of Navy Staff , Admiral Marsetio , the Navy stated immediately deploy five warships and a helicopter to help search aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 lost contact since yesterday morning ( 8/3 ) .
"I was communicating with the Malaysian Marine Tentera Commander , Admiral Tan Sri Abdul Aziz . Essentially , they asked us to help find plane Malaysia Airlines lost contact stated that , " he told AFP , here on Sunday .
Five Navy warship commissioned soon , he said , are all incorporated in the Indonesian Fleet Command Navy Region West Indonesia . " There are indeed being patrol duty and there were simply ordered to sail mission from his base , " he said .
Region of the search operation for the warships of the Navy , he said , is in Indonesian waters in the Strait of Malacca .
" We muster the strength that mission immediately shows the results of this search . We constantly coordinate and share information with our international partners in the mission of this search , " said Marsetio .
Information mentioned , radar Malaysian Air Tentera reportedly " catch " the reflection of radar waves in the air around the vehicle air space Penang , the Malay Peninsula .
MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing at 00:41 local time on Saturday ( 8/3 ) . Supposedly , he landed in Beijing at 06:40 local time on the same day on a flight without stopping it .
However , the radar controller Airspace Subang , Malaysia , lost contact - either in sound or radar screen - by MH370 at 02:41 local time . In the MH370 using the Boeing B - 777 - 200ER that there are seven Indonesian nationals ; originally rumored to exist 12 .
Air Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Kuala Lumpur route - Beijing is estimated to have reversed course before it disappeared from the radar screen , said an official with the Civil Aviation Malaysia , Sunday.
The Malaysian government is also investigating two passengers who had used a fake passport to board the plane , said the Director General of the Department of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman , as quoted by Xinhua .
One Boeing 777-200 passenger plane belonging to Malaysia Airlines with 239 passengers and crew members , including more than 150 Chinese nationals , lost contact with air traffic control tower on a flight from the capital city of Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur , to Beijing , China , Saturday morning .
There is no confirmed information about the fate of the plane after 36 hours have elapsed .
In Washington, the U.S. Navy on Saturday said it has sent a warship to help Malaysia Airlines' aircraft searches the lost .
USS Pinckney , Arleigh Burke -class destroyer is equipped with missiles , were on their way to the coast of southern Vietnam to help the search aircraft with Flight MH370 , the U.S. Navy said on its website .
USS Pinckney is conducting training and maritime security operations in international waters in the South China Sea . The ship was carrying two helicopters equipped with search and rescue equipment . The ship was expected to reach the search area within 24 hours .
The U.S. Navy also claimed the U.S. military will deploy Orion aircraft based in Okinawa , Japan . The plane will carry long-range search capability , radar and communications for the search mission .
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