China has diverted its icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, to a location where a Chinese military plane has spotted suspicious objects while searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.<br /><br />Attention and resources in the search for the Boeing 777 have shifted from an initial focus north of the equator to<br />an increasingly narrowed stretch of rough sea in the southern Indian Ocean, thousands of miles from the plane’s original flight path.<br /><br />Aircraft flying on Monday have been focused on searching by sight, rather than radar, which can be tricky to use because of the high seas and wind in the area. <br /><br />Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8.<br /><br />Investigators believe someone on the flight shut off the plane’s communications systems. <br /><br />Partial military radar tracking showed it turning west and re-crossing the Malay Peninsula, apparently under the control of a skilled pilot. That has led them to focus on hijacking or sabotage, but<br />investigators have not ruled out technical problems.
