Search for Malaysian plane will be 'long haul,' transport minister says
March 21, 2014 -- Updated 1202 GMT (2002 HKT)
Australian authorities
said Friday they had called off their search for the day for two mystery
objects that may or may not be parts of missing Malaysia Airlines
Flight 370.
Military surveillance
planes, a commercial jet and two merchant ships combing the area failed
to find any trace of the objects, which were spotted Sunday by a
satellite in the treacherous waters of the southern Indian Ocean. The
spot is more than 1,400 miles from the west coast of Australia.
Flight 370 vanished 14
days ago with 239 people aboard. The announcement Thursday by Australian
officials that they had spotted something raised hopes of a
breakthrough in a frustrating search that has yielded few clues about
what might have happened to the plane after it stopped communicating
with the ground, appeared to veer wildly off course then dropped out of
sight for good.
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