KUALA LUMPUR: The search for debris of missing Malaysia Airlines jet failed to yield any result on Friday prompting search planes to return.
The search planes, sent as part of an international effort to solve the nearly 2-week-old aviation mystery, are trying to locate two large objects a satellite detected floating off the southwest coast of Australia, about halfway to the desolate islands of the Antarctic.
Aircrafts from Australia and the United States have staggered departures to an area roughly 1,500 miles southwest of Perth, where two objects were captured on satellite and described as possible pieces of the plane, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The first plane, an Australian air force P3 Orion, arrived in the search area early afternoon local time, the authority said.
Given the distance from Australia to where the objects were spotted by a commercial satellite, the aircraft will only have between two and three hours to traverse the search area before having to start the return journey, the maritime authority said.
