Missing jet search continues, no debris found

Perth: The search for the crashed Malaysian jet continued on Sunday with 10 aircrafts and eight ships tasked to scour the Indian Ocean, after early sightings in the new search zone drew a blank.
Eight planes and a number of ships scoured some 252,000 square kilometres of water yesterday for signs of the plane, with aircraft reporting sightings of objects similar to those reported on Friday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
Former Australian defence force chief Angus Houston would head a new unit to help in the search involving the militaries of seven nations — Australia, China, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the US.
Eight ships will join the search by the end of the day, including the Australian Ocean Shield, which will be fitted with a “black box” detector and an autonomous underwater vehicle, AMSA said.
A Chinese aircraft on Saturday spotted three unidentified floating objects coloured white, red and orange. White and red were among the colours on the outside of the missing plane.

Officials said the focus to the new area about 1,100 km northeast of the previous search zone changed after radar data showed the plane had been travelling faster that previously thought, thus burning more fuel.

The Beijing-bound jetliner – carrying 239 people, including five Indians, an Indo-Canadian and 154 Chinese nationals – had vanished after taking off from Kuala Lumpur and crashed in the remote southern Indian Ocean.