Hunt for Plane Switches to Visual Search as Radar Scans Empty
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Australian authorities said planes scouring the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysian airliner are switching to a visual search of the region after radar scans came up empty yesterday.
“Although this search area is much smaller than what we started with, it nonetheless is a big area when you’re looking out the window and trying to see something by eye,” said John Young, general manager of emergency response at the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. “We may have to do this a few times to be confident about the coverage of this search area.”