ultinational search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane resumed today with 14 planes and nine ships joining the hunt, a day after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak vowed not to give up on the search for the aircraft.

The federal government's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), which is overseeing the search, in a statement said 10 military planes, four civil jets and nine ships will scour for the Malaysia Airlines MH370 that disappeared on March 8.

The search will focus on three areas within the same vicinity in the Indian Ocean. The first aircraft left for the search area early this morning.

A relative of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cries after attending a video conference with the Malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines officials from Kuala Lumpur, at the Lido Hotel in Beijing. The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed, even as senior Australian officials warned that bad weather and a lack of reliable information were seriously impeding efforts to locate the plane's wreckage.(Reuters)

A total of 26 State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers from Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria will work as air observers on three of the civil aircraft.

"The other civil aircraft will operate as a communications relay," the statement said.

Fair weather is forecast for the search area today, with visibility around 10 kilometres and a cloud base between 1000 and 2000 feet, JACC said.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau continued to refine the area where the aircraft entered the water based on continuing ground-breaking and multi-disciplinary technical analysis of satellite communication and aircraft performance, passed from the international investigative team comprising analysts from Malaysia, the US, the UK, China and Australia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday flew to Australia for briefings on the search for the drowned Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet liner and to meet with his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott.

Abbott yesterday said the authorities won't rest until they have done everything possible to find the aircraft. "It is a very

Source: Financial Express