Plane search has a window of mild weather in ‘pretty rough part of the world’

By Simon Denyer, Chico Harlan, Ashley Halsey III, March 22, 2014

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia asked the United States to supply undersea surveillance equipment Friday to search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as trained spotters aboard low-flying planes scoured the remote and inhospitable seas of the southern Indian Ocean in a race against time to find debris or survivors.