Missing Malaysian aircraft: No news after Australia’s Indian Ocean search

The whereabouts of Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 people aboard remains a tragic mystery.

The whereabouts of Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 people aboard remains a tragic mystery. Promising satellite images from Australia started a massive search in one of the most remote regions of the world – in the Southern Indian Ocean, four flight hours or 2000 miles from Western Australia.

After an unsuccessful massive search today, rumors this flight may be in Northern Asia are coming back. In reality no one knows where the missing plane is. Did it crash? Was it was hijacked? All options remain open.

“The last report is that nothing of particular significance has been identified in the search today but the work will continue,” said Warren Truss, who is acting prime minister while Tony Abbott is in Papua New Guinea.

Truss told reporters that two Chinese aircraft are expected to arrive in Perth on Saturday to join the search, and two Japanese aircraft will be arriving on Sunday. A small flotilla of ships coming to Australia from China is still several days away.

“We are doing all that we can, devoting all the resources we can and we will not give up until all of the options have been exhausted,” Truss said. “We can’t be certain that the sightings are in fact debris from the aircraft (but) it is about the only lead that is around at the present time.”

The search area in the southern Indian Ocean is so remote is takes aircraft four hours to fly there and four hours back, leaving them only about two hours to search.

The satellite discovery raised new hopes of finding the jet and sent another emotional jolt to the families of the people on board.

The aircraft are planning to head back to the search zone on Saturday, but the search area will change slightly depending on water movements.

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