A U.S. Navy towed pinger locator and other ocean search and recovery assets sit in a cargo aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City March 24, 2014, before being transported to the Indian Ocean to support search and recovery efforts for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The pinger locator was capable of locating emergency relocation pingers on downed Navy and commercial aircraft down to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet anywhere in the world. U.S. Navy ships and aircraft were dispatched to assist a multinational search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people aboard.