2 weeks in, no sign of Flight 370 CNN Thats how long its been since 227 passengers and 12 crew members boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, destined for Beijing. A routine trip, it seemed, to catch up relatives in time for the weekend, start on a work assignment or just get away. Where they got to, still unknown. An exhaustive search -- over a mind-boggling 2.97 million square miles, which is nearly the size of the continental United States -- has yielded some clues, but no proof of where the Boeing 777 is or definitively what happened to it. The latest, most notable lead revolved around two large objects detected by satellite Sunday floating on waters over 1,400 miles off of Australias west coast. Military surveillance planes, a commercial jet and two merchant ships combing the area failed to find any trace of the objects Friday, before authorities called off the search for the day. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday defended the decision to announce the find, saying that Australia owes it to families of those missing to give them information as soon as its to hand. But he didnt make any promises. It could just be a container that has fallen off a ship, Abbott said during a visit to Papua New Guinea. We just dont know. On Friday, Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysias interim transportation minister, tried to reset expectations for a quick resolution to the mystery after the satellite discovery.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 21:04:17 +0000
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