The World : Korea Jet Debris Reported

A U.S. Navy plane has sighted debris believed to be from a South Korean airliner floating in the Andaman Sea off Burma, Korean Air officials announced. Lee Kun Soo, a Korean Air executive, told reporters eight floating pieces believed to be life jackets and escape slides from the vanished Boeing 707 were sighted by a U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft. Lee said U.S. authorities notified KAL of the sighting and said rescuers began an operation to retrieve the items from the sea. The Korean Air jetliner was carrying 115 people when it disappeared on a flight from Baghdad, Iraq, to Seoul.