03-20-2014, 11:20 AM
The latest on the Australian search effort, from the link crash posted:
The Australian-led search 2500km southwest of Perth has finished for the night without finding any debris from MH370, nor the objects that appeared in the satellite images revealed on Thursday.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) announced just before midnight on Thursday, eastern daylight time, that four surveillance planes - from Australia, the United States and New Zealand - had covered an area of 23,000 square kilometres.
AMSA also explained in its statement why authorities are acting on the images only now, though they were taken on Sunday. "Due to the volume of imagery being searched, and the detailed process of analysis that followed, the information was brought to the attention of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on Thursday morning," it said.
The search will resume on Friday morning.
The Australian-led search 2500km southwest of Perth has finished for the night without finding any debris from MH370, nor the objects that appeared in the satellite images revealed on Thursday.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) announced just before midnight on Thursday, eastern daylight time, that four surveillance planes - from Australia, the United States and New Zealand - had covered an area of 23,000 square kilometres.
AMSA also explained in its statement why authorities are acting on the images only now, though they were taken on Sunday. "Due to the volume of imagery being searched, and the detailed process of analysis that followed, the information was brought to the attention of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on Thursday morning," it said.
The search will resume on Friday morning.