The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has resumed after search teams had to take a break due to poor weather conditions. With weather showing an improvement, the search has resumed for the plane that is believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
As part of Wednesday's search operation, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) says 12 aircraft are looking for the flight that vanished on March 8 after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, the BBC reports. The flight carrying 239 people was supposed to go to Beijing but disappeared.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak recently announced that an analysis of satellite data showed that the plane likely crashed into the souther Indian Ocean and there were no survivors. Families of the victims are upset with the way the situation has been handled since the plane vanished. Dozens of relatives staged a protest on Tuesday outside of the Malaysian embassy in Beijing to demand more information. Among those on board were 153 people from China.
Multiple nations are now on the search for the plane and are paying particular focus to a remote area of ocean about 1,500 miles southwest from Perth, Australia.
The search was suspended on Tuesday due to rough seas and heavy rain by Amsa said conditions improved on Wednesday and the search is on yet again.
On its Facebook page, Amsa released a schedule for the search on Wednesday, saying "Today's search for any signs of flight MH370 is now underway. Today's search is split into three areas within the same proximity covering a cumulative 80,000 square kilometres. A total of six countries are now assisting in the search and recovery operation - Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea.
A total of seven military and five civil aircraft will be involved in today's search activities. One Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft from China departed Perth around 8am for the search area. A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion aircraft NZ P-3K2 departed for the search area around 9.10am. A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P3 Orion is scheduled to depart Perth around 11am. A US Navy P8 Poseidon is due to depart around 2pm. A Japanese P3 Orion is due to depart Perth around 3pm. A second RAAF P3 Orion is scheduled to depart for the search area around 4pm. A Republic of Korea P3 Orion is due to depart around 5pm. Two civil aircraft have now departed Perth for the search area. The remaining three civil aircraft will depart for the search area between 10am and midday.
A total of 34 State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers from Western Australia will be air observers on board the five civil aircraft. HMAS Success and China's polar supply ship Xue Long are now in the search area."
The search may not last long as weather conditions are expected to worsen over the next few days. Yet Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says they're giving it their all.
"We owe it to the families, we owe it to an anxious world to do everything we can to finally locate some wreckage and to do whatever we can to solve the riddle of this extraordinarily ill-fated flight," he said according to BBC.
According to experts, even if debris is found, the entire plane and flight recorders may not be recovered for years.
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