Flight 370: Still trying to find haystack
Flight MH370: 'All lives are lost'
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, Austrlian 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 multi-national team is formidable: a 2.2 million square mile area in one of the remotest places on Earth.
"We're not searching for a needle in a haystack," Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force, told reporters. "We're still trying to find where the haystack is."
In Beijing, hundreds of friends and family members of missing passengers planned to gather at the Malaysian Embassy to express their anger and frustration.
Police prevented buses carrying more than 300 people from leaving the Beijing hotel where many passengers' relatives have been staying. The people then began to head to the embassy on foot.
Once they got to the street where the embassy sits, they found hundreds of police officers blocking it.
"We all feel enormous sorrow and pain," Malaysia Airlines CEO 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."
Responding to a reporter who asked him whether he will resign, Ahmad said it was a personal decision. "We'll take it day by day," he said.
Malaysia Airlines said Tuesday it has offered family members $5,000 for each passenger aboard the ill-fated flight and was preparing to make additional payments as the prolonged search continues.
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