US spy plane deployed to find missing tuna fishermen

From MindaNews (Dec 13): US spy plane deployed to find missing tuna fishermen

The United States (US) government has dispatched one its maritime surveillance aircrafts to augment the ongoing search and rescue operations for hundreds of fishermen from this city and nearby Sarangani province who went missing at the height of the Typhoon Pablo last week. City Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio, chair of the Task Force Maritime Search and Rescue-SarGen (Sarangani/General Santos City), said Thursday the US embassy in Manila has commissioned a P-3C Orion aircraft of the US Navy to help search for possible survivors along the high seas off the Pacific Ocean and Indonesia’s territorial waters. She said the deployment of the P-3C Orion aircraft was facilitated by officials of the US Agency for International Development, which has been assisting the relief operations for typhoon victims in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental. “This will be a big help to us since the aircraft will enable the rescue teams to cover a wider portion of the search area at the soonest possible time,” the mayor said in a press briefing.....

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