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The international search for the missing Malaysian airliner resumed on Friday, one day after
Australian officials announced that satellite images showed possible debris from the plane
in the Indian Ocean. Authorities are now scouring over the remote
search area... to try and locate the objects. Connie Lee has the details. It's called one
of the most remote places on Earth--- Over in the southern Indian Ocean,... military
planes set out again on Friday... scouring 35-thousand square kilometers of ocean...
in search of possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
"It's about the most inaccessible spot that you can imagine on the face of the Earth,
but if there is anything down there, we will find it. We owe it to the families of those
people [on board] to do no less."
The search on Thursday, hampered by bad weather, turned up nothing,...
but once Friday came, the Australia-led search mission sent five aircraft back to the area....
some 23-hundred kilometers away from Australia's southern coast.
"We've been throwing everything we've got at that area, to try to learn more about what
this debris might be."
Satellite images, of two objects in the ocean... were released on Thursday.
They are said to be of "reasonable size"-- the largest being 24-meters long.
Investigators say the latest findings are a credible lead... but it could take "several
days" to determine whether the objects spotted by satellite did come from Malaysia Airlines
Flight 370. It's been 13 days since the Malaysian flight
mysteriously went missing. So for families of the missing passengers,
it's been an excruciating wait for answers.
"Of course we, the families, want to hear new updates. Tonight, the government didn't
give us anything new at all...// My hope is that my son is still alive and safe, and that
all the passengers are alive."
The Boeing triple-7 was headed to Beijing, from Kuala Lumpur, when it disappeared in
the early hours of March 8th. Connie Lee, Arirang News.