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FILE - In this April 5, 2014 file photo, a U.S. Navy plane P-8 Poseidon taxies to the end of the runway for takes off from Perth Airport on route to conduct search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia. Every day from the Perth airport and a nearby military base, about a dozen planes from several countries take flight to search for debris from missing Flight 370 - so far without success. The U.S. Defense Department alone committed $7.3 million to the effort in the first month of the search, much of it spent on two U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon planes that cost $4,000 per hour to fly. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

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FILE - In this April 5, 2014 file photo, pilots look out of a window from the cockpit in a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon plane as it taxies to the end of the runway to take off from Perth Airport on route to conduct search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia. Every day from the Perth airport and a nearby military base, about a dozen planes from several countries take flight to search for debris from missing Flight 370 _ so far without success. The U.S. Defense Department alone committed $7.3 million to the effort in the first month of the search, much of it spent on two U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon planes that cost $4,000 per hour to fly. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

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This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Kaufman family disembarking from the USS Vandegrift on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, following their rescue at sea on April 6. Six days after the family of four found themselves helpless and adrift in a sailboat far into the Pacific with a vomiting and feverish 1-year-old aboard, a Navy warship delivered them safely to shore, where they had begun their attempted around-the world voyage before the child was born. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

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CORRECTS DATE TO APRIL 9 - This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Kaufman family disembarking from the USS Vandegrift on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, following their rescue at sea on April 6. Six days after the family of four found themselves helpless and adrift in a sailboat far into the Pacific with a vomiting and feverish 1-year-old aboard, a Navy warship delivered them safely to shore, where they had begun their attempted around-the world voyage before the child was born. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

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In this image provided by the U.S. Navy the USS Vandegrift is underway Oct. 15, 2012 in the South China Sea. The U.S. Navy warship reached the crippled sailboat hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast and was preparing Sunday April 6, 2014 to complete the rescue of a sick 1-year-old girl. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Specialist 3rd Class Paul Kelly)