Better weather to aid Malaysia plane search

An Australian Department of Defence handout made available on 21 March 2014 shows a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) AP-3C Orion aircraft from No.10 Squadron, No. 92 Wing, starts its engines at RAAF Base Pearce, Western Australia.-EPA

SYDNEY: Improving weather conditions should help the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Friday, forecasters said, as Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott vowed everything "humanly possible" was being done to find the aircraft.

But four planes from Australia, New Zealand and the United States that flew over a 23,000-square kilometre (8,800 square mile) area of the vast ocean some 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth on Thursday saw nothing of significance, hampered by low cloud.