REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian Air Force had sent a Beechcraft aircraft to search for a missing navy vessel but heavy rain was hampering the search operation, local media reported on Monday.
He said in a statement that the vessel left the RMN base in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, at 5 a.m. on Sunday and lost contact with the escort vessel at 11:15 a.m., adding that the incident occurred during bad weather in the region.
The MMEA had assigned two vessels and a plane to assist the search and rescue operation, according to The Star, a local English-language newspaper.
Abdul Aziz said in his tweet account on Monday that MMEA had an AW139 aircraft ready at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport for the operation earlier in the day.
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