Planes, ships involved in search for Flight MH370

The Australian-led search for Flight MH370 switched focus to a new area Friday after fresh analysis radically changed estimates of where the aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.

Seventeen aircraft, some carrying state-of-the-art submarine-hunting technology, and six ships, five of them Chinese, are involved in the southern corridor search zone, focusing on a 319,000-square-kilometre (123,000-square-mile) expanse of sea.

Here is a breakdown of the ships and planes at the disposal of those in charge of the operation, which is now focused on an area some 1,100 kilometres (685 miles) northwest of previous estimates.

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