Missing MH370: Aussie planes search remote seas

Doing their part: Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Neville Dawson (left) discussing the search area with Flight Officer Brittany Sharpe aboard the Royal Australian Airforce AP-3C Orion, some 2,500km southwest of Perth. - EPA

PERTH: Spotter planes spent a second day scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean for wreckage from Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, coming home with nothing to show.

Australia’s acting prime minister, Warren Truss, tamped down expectations as Prime Minister Tony Abbott had to defend himself against accusation that he had jumped the gun.