Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian search planes have found no sign of the missing aircraft in the area where Chinese satellite images had shown debris. The investigation was carried out after Chinese satellites photographed three “suspected floating objects”.
The fruitless hunt for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 comes to its sixth day. The aircraft went missing early Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
The search for the missing flight has been expanded to an area encompassing nearly 27,000 nautical miles (over 90,000 square kilometres) – roughly the size of Portugal – and involves the militaries of multiple nations.
The latest progress comes even as Malaysian authorities acknowledged on Wednesday of detecting radar signals of the missing airliner veering sharply off course and hundreds of kilometres away from its last known position. The authorities failed to disclose the data for four days as they struggled to interpret it.
Officials said they have given the radar data to American investigators to assist in determining if the radar blips were likely to have come from the Boeing 777.