JAKARTA, Indonesia — An object spotted during a sea search for an AirAsia plane was not from the aircraft, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Monday after reports that an Australian surveillance aircraft had found something.
“It has been checked and no sufficient evidence was found to confirm what was reported,” Kalla told a press conference at Surabaya airport from where the ill-fated plane departed.
Australia, Singapore and Malaysia have deployed planes and ships to assist in the Indonesian search for Flight QZ8501, which disappeared over the Java Sea on Sunday en route to Singapore.
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