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Missing MH370: Full List of Ships, Planes in Indian Ocean Search

Here's a snapshot of the military assets and technological tools deployed by six countries scouring the Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
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Searchers from six countries are scouring the southern Indian Ocean to recover debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.

The operation is a race against time as investigators scramble to find the doomed flight's "black boxes" — the voice and data recorders that may help officials solve one of the most complex mysteries in aviation history — before ocean currents make recovery impossible.

Here's a snapshot of the military assets and technological tools deployed to date in the search:

The United States

  • (1) Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft
  • (1) Navy Towed Pinger Locator (TPL), which can detect a black box "ping"
  • (1) Bluefin Robotics Corp. unmanned "mini-sub"
Image: A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion
A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion parks on the tarmac at an air force base north of Perth on Monday following its return from a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.Jason Reed / Pool via AP

Australia

  • HMAS Success, a Royal Australian Navy ship
  • (4) Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft

China

  • Xue Long ("Snow Dragon"), a polar supply ship
  • (2) Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft
Image: A man takes a photo of Chinese icebreaker Xuelong
A man takes a photo of the icebreaker Xuelong, literally "Snow Dragon," berthed in Qingdao port, China, in 2012.AFP - Getty Images file

Japan

  • (1) P-3 Orion aircraft

New Zealand

  • (1) Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft

South Korea

  • (1) P-3 Orion aircraft

A total of five civil aircraft - a Bombardier Global Express, Gulfstream 5 and an Airbus 319, four of them from Australia, one from New Zealand - and six merchant ships are also assisting in the search, according to the Australia Maritime Safety Authority. All the information was correct as of 4 a.m. ET Wednesday.

— Ziad Jaber and Daniel Arkin