Darkness halts Malaysia jet search
March 21, 2014  00:15

An international air search in the Indian Ocean for possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has ended for the day, officials have said. Australia, New Zealand and the US said bad weather had hampered their efforts in the area 2,500km (1,550 miles) south-west of Perth.

 

Four planes were trying to check whether two objects seen on satellite images were debris from flight MH370. The Kuala Lumpur-Beijing plane with 239 people on board disappeared on 8 March. It first lost contact with air traffic controllers and then disappeared from radar.

 

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