WORLD_ Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: search resumes, but still looking for the 'haystack'

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: search resumes, but still looking for the 'haystack'

Date March 26, 2014 - 10:56AM
Megan Levy Breaking news reporter
THE AGE


MH370: weather improves for search
'Narrow window' for search crews as weather conditions improve but another storm front is expected tomorrow says Bureau of Meterology spokesperson Neil Bennett.

The hunt for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 will resume on Wednesday morning in the southern Indian Ocean, after treacherous weather conditions that had forced a 24-hour delay eased overnight.

But as 12 aircraft prepare to take off from the Royal Australian Air Force's Base Pearce, Australian authorities have issued a stark warning about the difficulty of the search and recovery mission.

"We're not searching for a needle in a haystack," said Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force.




An RAAF AP-3C Orion searches for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photo: AFP


"We're still trying to define where the haystack is."

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) on Wednesday morning said weather conditions had eased considerably, allowing HMAS Success to make its way back to the search area.

On Tuesday, all aerial searches were suspended and HMAS Success was forced to leave the searching zone, roughly 2500 kilometres south-west of Perth, due to two-metre waves and swells of up to four metres, as well as winds of up to 80km/h, periods of heavy rain, and low cloud.




Still looking for the haystack ... A crewman of an RAAF AP-3C Orion aircraft looks out his observation window whilst searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 over the Indian Ocean. Photo: AP


"Weather conditions have improved in the area and HMAS Success is now on its way back to the search area," AMSA said in a statement.

"On its arrival, HMAS Success will conduct a surface sweep of an area identified on Monday afternoon by a RAAF P3 Orion as the location for several objects of interest."

Aircraft from Australia, China, Japan, Korea, the US and New Zealand will participate in Wednesday's search.

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft will be the first to depart the RAAF base for the search area about 8am (11am Australian eastern daylight time).

China's polar supply ship Xue Long also is expected to arrive in the search area later on Wednesday morning.

Wednesday's search will be split into three zones within the same area, covering about 80,000 square kilometres, AMSA said.

Defence Minister David Johnston said the search area was “probably one of the most remote parts of the planet” and one that “has shipwrecked many sailors.”

Meantime, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search for the missing plane was not open-ended, but said Australia would not lightly abandon efforts to locate the wreckage.

Mr Abbott said there was a lot of debris in the area and Australia would keep searching until there was no hope of finding anything.

"We are just going to keep on looking because we owe it to people to do everything we can to resolve this riddle," he told the Nine Network.

"It is not absolutely open-ended but it is not something we will lightly abandon."

Mr Abbott said he spoke to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday and pledged Australia's continuing help.

He said it wasn't known how many relatives of those aboard the doomed aircraft would come to Australia to be closer to the search.

But those who made the trip would pay no visa fees at this "unspeakable time".

"If they want to come to Australia, we will make them welcome and we will do everything we can to assist," he said.

But in Beijing Steve Wang, 25, whose mother was onboard the ill-fated flight, said relatives would not go to Perth unless there was firm physical evidence of the plane’s wreckage.

“There’s no point going because nothing is found,” Mr Wang, one of about 20 volunteers serving on the family’s organising committee, said in English.

“If there’s something found we will go. Or we will go to Malaysia and find for ourselves.”

Mr Wang, who joined in a raucous street march and protest of about 200 relatives at the Malaysian embassy in Beijing on Tuesday, said families were dismissive of the Malaysian government’s conclusion that the plane ditched into the southern Indian Ocean off Australia’s west coast, which was reached based on fresh analysis of satellite data from a private British firm.

“There’s no evidence, you can’t find anything, it’s just analysis, not data from the GPS. I don’t think it’s true… They are hiding so many things.”

With AAP

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