March 25 —A search and recovery operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean will resume on Wednesday, March 26.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed on today the focus is now on search and recovery of any objects related to the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

As many as 12 aircraft are expected to be involved in the search tomorrow, including seven military aircraft and five civil aircraft.

HMAS Success will return to the search area and conduct a surface sweep of an area identified yesterday afternoon by a Royal Australian Air Force P3 Orion as the location for several objects of interest.

A total of six countries are now assisting in the search — Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea.

India has also offered to join in the search and recovery operation.

China’s polar supply ship Xue Long (Snow Dragon) and three other Chinese ships are expected to arrive in the search area tomorrow.

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