{"id":4826,"date":"2014-03-22T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T02:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2014-03-22T19:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T02:10:53","slug":"malaysia-asks-pentagon-for-more-equipment-in-search-for-flight-370-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/22\/malaysia-asks-pentagon-for-more-equipment-in-search-for-flight-370-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia asks Pentagon for more equipment in search for Flight 370 plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4866\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thumb_RDML-Kirby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4866\" alt=\"Rear Adm. John Kirby (Photo: http:\/\/www.navy.mil)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thumb_RDML-Kirby-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thumb_RDML-Kirby-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/thumb_RDML-Kirby.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rear Adm. John Kirby (Photo: http:\/\/www.navy.mil)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Malaysia is asking the United States to provide undersea surveillance equipment to help in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, says the request for more U.S. equipment came Friday when Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Malaysia&#8217;s defence minister and acting transport minister.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby says in a statement that Hagel has promised to assess the availability of the military undersea technology and its usefulness in the search effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon says it has spent $2.5 million to operate ships and aircraft that have been helping look for the plane and has budgeted another $1.5 million for search efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON &#8211; Malaysia is asking the United States to provide undersea surveillance equipment to help in the search for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[1275,852,755,754,352],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-malaysian","tag-plane","tag-states","tag-united","tag-us","mauthors-pauline-jelinek","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","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=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}