Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 -- News Updates March 21, 2014

Air Search For Missing MH370 Draws Another Blank As Australian PM Admits 'Debris' Might 'Just Be A Shipping Container...We Just Don't Know' -- Daily Mail

* Search co-ordinator says objects 'could be best lead to find survivors'
* But Australian PM warns debris could simply be shipping containers
* Acting Prime minister believes the suspected debris may have sunk
* Pilot says he has 'a lot of hope' after two-hour sweep of search area
* Search party has 29 planes, 21 ships and 6 helicopters from 20 nations
* Malaysian defence minister warns the search was going to be a 'long haul'
* Operation has finished for a second day with nothing significant found
* Teams will return tomorrow as operation is extended for another day
* Only 16 days left before batteries on the locator beacons run out
* Malaysia to request deep ocean salvage vehicles from the United States
* Plane was carrying lithium ion batteries, but 'not deemed hazardous'

Search planes flying deep into the Indian Ocean found nothing that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet after a second day scanning the seas, Australia's acting prime minister said today.

The planes are part of an international effort to solve the nearly two-week-old mystery of what happened to flight MH370 which vanished with 239 people on board.

Warren Truss, who is acting prime minister while Tony Abbott is in Papua New Guinea, said: 'The last report I have is that nothing of particular significance has been identified in the search today but the work will continue.'

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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 -- News Updates March 21, 2014

Renewed hunt for Indian Ocean debris: Live -- BBC
MH370: Aircraft reach search zone in south Indian Ocean - live -- The Guardian
MH370: ocean debris 'may have sunk': Live -- The Telegraph

MH370 Malaysia plane: No debris found as search day ends -- BBC
MH370: Australia says no possible debris from missing plane found yet -- The Guardian
Nothing spotted in search for jet, Australia says -- AP
Mission to Find Missing Malaysian Jet Unsuccessful, Search Expands -- Voice of America
No debris found in Malaysia plane search -- Al Jazeera
Australia says suspected plane debris may have sunk -- Reuters
Australia says nothing spotted in search for missing Malaysian plane -- Washington Times
No Sign of Jet as Search Goes Low-Tech -- Wall Street Journal
China, Japan and Britain Join Search for Missing Jet in Indian Ocean -- New York Times
Malaysia Airlines MH370 Debris Hunt: India Turns Down China's Request to enter its Waters to Prevent 'Sniffing Around' -- IBTimes
Air France investigator warns of 'colossal' task on MH370 -- The Telegraph
Navy: Radar hits on P-8A Poseidon in MH370 search were 'routine' -- Stars and Stripes
Sensors Aid P-8 Crew in Airliner Search -- Defense Tech
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Why Boeing P-8A Poseidon Aircraft Could Find Wreckage -- IBTimes
Navy's P-8 Searching for Missing Jet Will be Grounded Saturday -- NBC
Satellites to binoculars used in Flight 370 search -- AP
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search tests limits of satellites -- Washington Post
Flight 370 Search Turning to Human Eyes After Another Fruitless Day -- New York Magazine
Hunt for Flight 370 Switches to Visual Search as Radar Empty -- Bloomberg Businessweek
U.S. Spending on Jet Search Tops $2.5 Million, Officials Say -- NBC
MH370's disappearance was 'crew-related and well planned': Expert says location of 'debris' suggests pilot intervention as search for ghost plane resumes in 10,000ft of water -- Daily Mail
Malaysian woman claims to have seen missing MH370 in the water near Andaman Islands on day it disappeared -- Daily Mail
Missing MH370: World's most difficult recovery -- BBC
"It's About The Most Inaccessible Spot That You Could Imagine on the Face of the Earth" -- Josh Voorhees, Slate
Malaysia Plane Search Highlights Need for Improved Regional Cooperation -- Rebecca Valli, VOA