The debris of Malaysia jet didn’t found by the first plane which was sent on Friday to fly over one of the remotest places on Earth. Australian officials said that the first plane had returned empty-handed from its hunt through rough seas for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Meanwhile another three planes were still in the area trying to help solve the nearly 2-week-old aviation mystery, and another was on the way to look for two large objects a satellite detected floating off the southwest coast of Australia about halfway to the desolate islands of the Antarctic.
A search on Thursday with four planes in cloud and rain found nothing, and so far efforts on Friday were the same, with a Royal Australian Air Force P3 Orion plane flying back to Australia.
According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, two more Orions and a Bombardier Global Express were still scouring the area 2,300 kilometres from western Australia. A US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft also was in the air.
Spokesperson for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Lisa Martin said weather conditions were getting better as the day wore on, with moderate seas and some cloud cover, and improving visibility.
Air commodore with New Zealand’s Air Force Mike Yardley said the search on Thursday was hampered when an Orion was forced to duck below thick clouds and fog to a very low altitude of 200 feet.
Yardley said, “We will find it I’m sure about that piece of it. The only reason we wouldn’t find it was that it has sunk.”
He said, “I’ve been on these missions before when it’s taken a few days to come across it.”
Speaking at a news conference in Papua New Guinea, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, “We’ve been throwing everything we’ve got at that area to try to learn more about what this debris might be.”
Abbott spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom he described as “devastated.” Of the 227 passengers on the missing flight, 154 were from China.
Abbott said, “It’s about the most inaccessible spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth, but if there is anything down there we will find it. We owe it to the families of those people to do no less.”
Bureau Report
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