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India Sends Patrol Aircraft to Philippines to Search For Cargo Vessel Survivors

© AP Photo / Arun Sankar KA Boeing P-8I aircraft arrives for its induction at the Naval Air Station Rajali in Arrakonam, some 58 miles from Chennai, India, Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A Boeing P-8I aircraft arrives for its induction at the Naval Air Station Rajali in Arrakonam, some 58 miles from Chennai, India, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - Sputnik International
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The 2010-built 57,367 dwt MV Emerald Star was on the way to Lianyungang in North China from the Indonesian port of Bali with nickel ore on board when the incident happened.

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — The Indian Navy has deployed its most potent maritime reconnaissance aircraft Boeing P8I to the Philippines to join the ongoing search operation for 10 Indians who went missing Friday after cargo ship — MV Emerald Star — sank in the Pacific Ocean off Japan. According to the Indian Navy, its P 8I long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft started the search operation immediately after landing at the Villamor air base in Manila.

"One P-8I aircraft took off at 11:45 p.m. yesterday for Manila to search for missing sailors of MV Emerald Star," an Indian Navy official said.

​On October 13, Japanese officials had said that a distress signal was received from the vessel when it was about 150 nautical miles east of the northern tip of the Philippines. The Japanese Coast Guard managed to rescue 16 people who were aboard the MV Emerald Star while 10 others, all of whom were Indians, are still missing. It is suspected that a typhoon in the region might have caused the accident.

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