The first Royal Australian Air Force plane to be sent to find possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has returned, but found nothing, Australian officials has announced. The plane was sent on Friday in the southern area of Indian Ocean, 2500 km. (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, after satellite imagery revealed two possible objects from the troubled plane.
Nonetheless, rescue authorities are continuously studying satellite data n the hopes to find more clues of the missing plane. Three other planes are still in the search area, while another plane is on the way to help the 13-day aviation mystery. A Norwegian merchant ship has also been searching the area and another one is set to arrive tonight.
On Thursday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) announced that two objects with significant sizes were spotted by satellite that could be debris of the vanished Boeing 777 plane. John Young of the AMSA said that one of these objects is larger than the other and was assumed to be measuring around 24 meters (78 feet).
Mr. Young noted that the area is very remote and the bad weather is hampering the planes to view the area clearly. Due to the distance, the planes are spending eight hours of travel to the area back and forth, leaving them only two hours to do the search. AMSA spokeswoman Lisa Martin today said that the weather is now getting better, while apologizing for the frequent shutdown of their official website.
Meanwhile, China is reportedly sending three of its warships to help the search. The vessels, namely the Haikou, the Kunlunshan, and the Qiandaohu, were doing their own search near the Sumatra Island in the western part of Indonesia. A fourth Chinese ship named Snow Dragon, is also likely to join the search of the mysterious Malaysia Airlines, which boarded 239 passengers, most of them were Chinese.
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