KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has encountered problems due to bad weather in locating the objects detected by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean that could be linked to a missing Malaysian airliner, said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
Clouds and rain had caused limited visibility for the RAAF P-3 Orion aircraft crew to locate the objects spotted by satellite about 2,500km southwest of the Australian city of Perth, tweeted AMSA.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had said earlier today that satellite imagery found two objects possibly related to the search for the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370.
The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 239 people left Kuala Lumpur on March 8 for Beijing, and has been missing for 13 days now.
A search was mounted for the aircraft in the South China Sea but the area of the search was extended to cover a large tract west of Malaysia, including the Indian Ocean, when it was learned that the plane had veered off course after
someone deliberately switched off the communication system on board and the plane had flown for seven hours after that.
The search then focused on two corridors, namely the northern corridor which stretches from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, and the southern corridor which stretches from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
— BERNAMA
