(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Perth Australia April 27 - The planned air and surface search for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft Flight MH370 has been suspended today due to deteriorating weather.
However the underwater search will continue with the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle codenamed Bluefin-21 expected to commence mission 15 Sunday (Bernama) news agency reported.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) which oversees the search operation said Bluefin-21 was expected to complete the remaining focused underwater search area and continue examining the areas adjacent to it during mission 15.
No contacts of interest have been found yet to date since the search operation commenced 51 days ago the agency said in a statement today.
It added that any further information would be made public if and when it became available.
The Bluefin-21 was dispatched on its maiden mission on April 14 in the hope of locating any debris of the missing plane underwater since no further confirmed signals were picked up by the Towed Pinger Locator since April 8.
The ill-fated airliner with 239 people onboard left the KL International Airport at 12.41am on March 8 and disappeared from radar screens about an hour later while over the South China Sea.
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