All the aircraft types involved in the MH370 air search in one photo

April 30, 2014 Military Aviation
David Cenciotti

Search by air for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 has been called off. Most (if not all) the aircraft tupes that undertook visual search from Australia, were grouped for a farewell picture.

Search for any sign of the missing MH370 flight in Southern Indian Ocean has been called off, since it is extremely unlikely that any debris will be found on the ocean’s surface little less than 2 months since the Boeing 777 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing mysteriously disappeared from radars.

52 days into the search, anything would have sunk and for this reason the authorities have decided to focus on underwater search.

But before patrol and support aircraft and crews from Australia, New Zealand, China, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and U.S. left Perth, RAAF Pearce, and RAAF Learmonth, planes from each participating nation were grouped for one last farewell photo.

Image credit: RAAF

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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5 Comments

  1. It looks like the Japanese Kawasaki P-1 is missing, it (there’s just one operational) probably already returned to Japan.

    I wasn’t aware that the RAAF’s Wedgetail was participating in the search.

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  3. Anyone on deck there have an explanation for the arrangement of planes or personnel? Protocol is the main question given the participants.

  4. Not present there are any of the bizjets also used. I hope they at least invited representatives of the trained civilian volunteers who did visual searches from them.
    Wedgetail was apparently deconflicting and comms relay.
    BTW, the oldest aircraft in the photo is the RNZAF P-3K2, which started out as a P-3B in 1967.

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