Indonesia Asks For US Help

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the aid could include "some air, surface and sub-surface detection capabilities."

"We stand ready to assist in any way possible,"

Indonesia Asks For US Help

The San Diego, California-based destroyer USS Sampson, which was already deployed to the western Pacific, will assist in the search, according to a US Navy press release by the U.S. 7th Fleet.

Dozens of planes and ships were searching for the missing plane, which lost contact en route from Surabaya in Indonesia's east Java to Singapore after the crew requested a change of flight plan due to stormy weather, in the third crisis for a Malaysian carrier this year.