Australia launched a search in the southern Indian Ocean after satellite images showed objects that could be debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tom Balentine from Orient Aviation Magazine says even if debris is found, we may not be closer to solving the mystery.
Inside look ... PerthNow was aboard an RAAF Hercules C-130, similar to this one, for an insider's look at the search to locate the missing Malaysian jetliner MH370 Source: News Limited
FIVE search and rescue aircraft returned to a Perth air force base late tonight after dropping a series of hi-tech monitoring buoys that will help authorities narrow the search for missing airliner MH370.
PerthNow was aboard an RAAF Hercules C-130 for an insider's look at the search to locate the missing jetliner, which is now focused on a remote and lonely swathe of the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of WA.
From the controls of the Hercules, RAAF pilot Flight Lieutenant Conan Brett conceded the area aircraft had covered was vast and finding a missing plane in a huge section of Indian Ocean was like looking for a "needle in a haystack''.
The pilot, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said his crew were doing everything possible to assist AMSA and find either survivors or wreckage.
"This is a big deal. We are out there looking. If we can help, even in a small way, to find answers, that would be exceptional,'' Flt. Lt. Brett said.
Eagle eyed ... Royal Australian Air Force Flight Engineer, Warrant Officer Ron Day from 10 Squadron, keeping watch for any debris or wreckage during the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from on board an AP-3C Orion over the southern Indian Ocean. Source: AFP
The Hercules flew west for five hours to drop two "self-locating data marker buoys'' which fell to the sea surface on parachutes and are now beaming current data and drift patterns to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority via satellite.
The buoys, which are normally dropped to detect submarines, will help AMSA narrow the search area for MH370 from the current, massive 305,000sqkm grid 3200km off the coast.
Four other aircraft left the RAAF's Pearce Base at Bullsbrook today — two Australian APC-3 Orion search and rescue planes, a New Zealand Orion and a US Navy P-8 Poseidon — to drop more of the GPS buoys.
But one Orion was diverted to check satellite imagery described as a "credible lead'' by AMSA, which showed two objects floating in the ocean — one about 24m long and the other about 5m in length.
Is that it? ... Satelite images of objects in the Indian Ocean which may be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared en route to Beijing early on March 8. Source: AFP
However, poor weather meant the aircraft's crew could not confirm if the objects were plane wreckage.
Meanwhile, a Norwegian car carrier, Hoegh St. Petersburg, has become the first ship to reach the area where possible debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was spotted.
The ship arrived at the search zone in the Indian Ocean after it was diverted from its trip from Madagascar to Melbourne.
Defence Minister David Johnston said authorities should know something definite on the possible discovery of the debris within two or three days.
Australia's defence forces were doing everything they could in one of the most remote locations in the world, Senator Johnston said, adding it was a "terribly complex logistical operation to identify what we have found via the satellite''.
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