MH370 Search Resumes As Weather Improves

The search operation for wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has started again as weather conditions improve off the Australian coast.

Gale-force winds, heavy rain, huge waves and low-hanging cloud had forced the international operation to be abandoned for 24 hours.

But crews were able to set off from Western Australia for the search zone in the southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday morning local time.

"Today's search is split into three areas within the same proximity covering a cumulative 80,000 sq km," said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search.

Twelve aircraft and two vessels are involved in Wednesday's search, which also involves New Zealand, the US, Japan, China and Korea.

UK satellie company Inmarsat helped narrow the search for MH370

Australia's HMAS Success will conduct a surface sweep of an area where two objects were spotted this week.

China's polar supply ship Xue Long was also heading to the search zone, with other Chinese vessels on their way.

The efforts will be aided by the deployment of an America's advanced sonar device to help locate the plane's black box.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search would continue until there was no hope of finding anything from the passenger jet, which vanished on March 8 on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

"We are just going to keep on looking because we owe it to people to do everything we can to resolve this riddle," he told Channel Nine.

"It is not absolutely open-ended but it is not something we will lightly abandon."

Grieving relatives have expressed their anger in Beijing

Before the weather stopped the search, hopes had been high that wreckage would be found after several sightings of objects, including a green circular item and an orange rectangular one.

But Mark Binskin, vice chief of Australia's Defence Force, underscored the daunting size of the search zone.

"We're not trying to find a needle in a haystack, we're still trying to define where the haystack is," he told reporters.

Officials earlier announced the hunt had been narrowed to the southern tip of the southern flight corridor the plane is thought to have followed.

The hunt, which at one stage involved 26 countries, was called off in the northern corridor of the Indian Ocean.

The search resumes amid heavy criticism of Malaysia and the airline from the relatives of the on 239 people on the flight.

Dozens of angry Chinese people clashed with police in a protest outside Malaysia's Embassy in Beijing. Most of the passengers were Chinese.

China has also demanded Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that the plane crashed into the ocean.

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