CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin January 2, 2015 20:06:00
Mission, has side scan sonar. side scan sonar takes an image of the ocean floor which would be useful in a situation like this as they look for pieces of the plane. the u.s. has also said it would send an aircraft to assist, a possible poseidon aircraft. we don't know how they plan on using this plane but could be the controller of a fleet drones as they look around specific areas of the ocean. it's a war fighter of course but in this mission it's possible the plane's under water defects capability kos becould be called into play including dropping sonar buoys and two dive teams are being call...
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