BBC Online :China has deployed ships to search new areas for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, as Thailand said its radars may have tracked the flight shortly after it lost contact.China has sent nine ships to waters south-east of the Bay of Bengal and west of Indonesia.Teams from 26 countries are trying to find flight MH370, which went missing on 8 March with 239 people on board. The entire search area is now roughly the size of Australia.Malaysia says the plane, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was intentionally diverted and could have flown on either a northern or southern arc from its last known position in the Malacca Straits. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the aircraft’s crew – or other individuals on the plane – were involved in its disappearance.The Chinese vessels set off from Singapore early on Wednesday, to search an area of around 300,000 sq km (116,000 sq miles), state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The ships would focus on waters near Sumatra, away from regions being searched by other countries, it added.On Tuesday, China began searching its territory along the northern arc for the aircraft, following a request from the Malaysian authorities.
