Deteriorating weather in Perth, Australia, early Friday is making the search for possible pieces of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean more complicated.
Getting more planes up in the air out over the site at the daylight became more difficult.
Still, Australian officials said Friday that one search plane had arrived back in the search area, two others were en route and a fourth was scheduled head there a bit later. One merchant vessel was also there, they said, and a second was en route.
With winter approaching, the south Indian Ocean is rough and the skies cloudy, both added challenges for the Australian pilots.
A freighter used searchlights early Friday to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected the debris.
In what officials called the "best lead" of the nearly two-week-old aviation mystery, a satellite detected two objects floating about 1,000 miles off the coast of Australia and halfway to the desolate islands of the Antarctic.
The development raised new hope of finding the vanished jet and sent another emotional jolt to the families of the 239 people aboard.
Sarah Bajc, whose boyfriend, American Philip Wood, was aboard the plane, is one of those anxiously awaiting news.
"I'm desperate to hear it is an airplane wing and there are survivors clinging to it, and one of them is Philip," she told CBS News by email. "I'm apprehensive it will be unrelated and the wait will just continue after many more hours of misery."
"I am prepared for dead bodies," she wrote, "but I am not prepared for never knowing."
One of the objects on the satellite image was almost 80 feet long and the other was 15 feet. There could be other objects in the area, a four-hour flight from southwestern Australia, said John Young, manager of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's emergency response division.
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Getting more planes up in the air out over the site at the daylight became more difficult.
Still, Australian officials said Friday that one search plane had arrived back in the search area, two others were en route and a fourth was scheduled head there a bit later. One merchant vessel was also there, they said, and a second was en route.
With winter approaching, the south Indian Ocean is rough and the skies cloudy, both added challenges for the Australian pilots.
A freighter used searchlights early Friday to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected the debris.
In what officials called the "best lead" of the nearly two-week-old aviation mystery, a satellite detected two objects floating about 1,000 miles off the coast of Australia and halfway to the desolate islands of the Antarctic.
The development raised new hope of finding the vanished jet and sent another emotional jolt to the families of the 239 people aboard.
Sarah Bajc, whose boyfriend, American Philip Wood, was aboard the plane, is one of those anxiously awaiting news.
"I'm desperate to hear it is an airplane wing and there are survivors clinging to it, and one of them is Philip," she told CBS News by email. "I'm apprehensive it will be unrelated and the wait will just continue after many more hours of misery."
"I am prepared for dead bodies," she wrote, "but I am not prepared for never knowing."
One of the objects on the satellite image was almost 80 feet long and the other was 15 feet. There could be other objects in the area, a four-hour flight from southwestern Australia, said John Young, manager of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's emergency response division.
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