The air and sea search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended due to bad weather and rough seas.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said the hunt had to be called off for the day due to gale force winds, rain and big waves.
"AMSA has undertaken a risk assessment and determined that the current weather conditions would make any air and sea search activities hazardous and pose a risk to crew," it said.
"Therefore, AMSA has suspended all sea and air search operations for today due to these weather conditions."
Cyclone Gillian is hampering the search efforts AMSA said the weather is expected to improve in the evening local time.
The Australian navy ship HMAS Success, which tried to find debris seen by a plane and satellite, has headed south of the search area to get out of the rough seas.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak earlier announced that after 17 days investigators were convinced the plane, with 239 people on board, went off course and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
Chinese Air Force crew returned to the base after the search was suspended He said satellite data provided by UK company Inmarsat showed MH370's last recorded position was in the middle of the ocean west of Perth, Australia.
Several satellite images of potential debris in that area had been picked up ahead of the announcement, with French, Australian, American and Chinese authorities all capturing images of possible debris.
Hopes had been high that wreckage would be found after two new objects - a green circular item and an orange rectangular one - were spotted by an Australian military plane on Monday.
HMAS Success has left the search area due to rough seas This followed larger "white and square" objects seen by a Chinese plane.
The search is a race against time as the battery life of the locator beacon in the black boxes may run out in the next two weeks.
The US military has sent a black box locator and a robotic underwater vehicle to help the hunt.
Families had been waiting since March 8 for news The mystery of why the plane, which was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, veered so far off course remains unsolved ahead of a press conference on Wednesday, when more details will be revealed.
Distraught relatives of passengers on the plane were informed of the news ahead of Mr Razak's press conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia's PM Najib Razak announced that the plane crashed There were hysterical scenes at the Beijing hotel where many of the relatives of those on board were staying.
Some of the family members have since launched a scathing attack on Malaysia's government, the airline and the country's military for the way the investigation was handled.
Distraught relatives at a Beijing hotel Their statement reads: "During the past 18 days since March 8, when Malaysia Airlines announced that it had lost contact with MH370, Malaysia Airlines, the government of Malaysia, and the military forces of Malaysia have concealed, delayed and hidden the truth from the relatives and the people of the world."
Malaysia's police chief, Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar, earlier reiterated that all the passengers had been cleared of suspicion.
But he said the pilots and crew were still being investigated.
He would not comment on whether officials had recovered the files that were deleted a month earlier from the home flight simulator of the chief pilot.
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