{"id":4821,"date":"2014-03-22T06:33:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T13:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2014-03-22T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T04:03:21","slug":"china-sends-3-warships-icebreaker-to-join-search-for-malaysian-plane-west-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/22\/china-sends-3-warships-icebreaker-to-join-search-for-malaysian-plane-west-of-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"China sends 3 warships, icebreaker to join search for Malaysian plane west of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"ArticleTitle\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>BEIJING &#8211; China is sending three warships and an icebreaker to join the search for possible pieces of a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean, the government said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Maritime Search and Rescue Center said three warships were en route to the area where a satellite image showed two large objects floating about 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles) west of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It gave no indication when they might arrive at the remote site, but earlier reports said the ships &#8211; the Kunlunshan, the Haikou and the Qiandaohu &#8211; were searching this week off the southwest coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon was preparing to leave Perth in western Australia for the search site, state television reported. The ship was in Perth following a voyage to Antarctica in January.<\/p>\n<p>Also Friday, three Chinese military planes left the southern city of Sanya for Malaysia to join the search, the official Xinhua News Agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; BEIJING &#8211; China is sending three warships and an icebreaker to join the search for possible pieces of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[561,420,851,852],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-as","tag-china","tag-malaysia","tag-plane","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}