Plane Search Suspended Due to Bad Weather

Search efforts for the Malaysia Airlines plane missing in the southern Indian Ocean were suspended today due to bad weather, officials said.

According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, planes are returning to Perth and ships are leaving the search area, which is located about 1,600 miles off of Australia's coast.

Today's search was slated to include 11 aircraft and five ships. The crews are scouring two search zones covering roughly 30,000 square miles, trying to find clues into the plane's March 8 disappearance.

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The suspended search comes one day after Malaysia officials presented satellite images showing a debris field of 122 objects floating in the Indian Ocean. So far, no objects connected to the missing plane have been recovered.

Search crews are racing to find the plane's black boxes, whose battery-powered "pinger" could stop sending signals within weeks.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was carrying 239 people when it went missing more than two weeks ago.