Efforts to try to identify debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean are unlikely to start again for at least another 24 hours, Australian officials said Tuesday. Gale-force winds, large waves, heavy rain and low clouds forecast for the area would make a search dangerous, they said. And the task ahead of the multinational team is formidable: tens of thousands of square miles in one of the remotest places on Earth. Were not searching for a needle in a haystack, Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force, told reporters. Were still trying to define where the haystack is. In Beijing, hundreds of friends and family members of missing passengers marched to the Malaysian Embassy to express their anger and frustration. They claimed they werent being told the truth by the Malaysian government about what happened to the plane. Im so mad, one upset family member told reporters. He said he felt there was no evidence that the passenger jet crashed in the Indian Ocean. If you find something: OK, we accept, he said. But nothing -- just from the data, just from analysis. Hundreds of police officers prevented the marchers from reaching the embassy building. One woman among the crowd, overcome by stress and emotion, was carried to a nearby ambulance on a stretcher. We all feel enormous sorrow and pain, Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told reporters Tuesday. Sorrow that all those who boarded Flight MH370 on Saturday 8th March, will not see their families again. And that those families will now have to live on without those they love.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:42:02 +0000
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