Philippine Air Force, navy join Malaysia and Vietnam in search for missing Malaysian airplane

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY: With Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines are pulling efforts to look for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, hoping to find and determine what befell the airplane and its 239 passengers after it lost communication Saturday with air traffic controllers in Kuala Lumpur.

In Palawan, Philippines, the Western Command (WESCOM), after receiving orders from Secretary Voltaire Gazmin of the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to assist in the international search shortly after the incident, has sent again Sunday morning a Fokker plane to back the three Philippine Navy (PN) patrol ships that are now in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).