Up to 11 military aircraft and 12 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totalling approximately 50,200 square kilometres, across three areas.
Chart of search area for flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean.
Overnight Bluefin-21 AUV completed mission six in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has searched approximately 133 square kilometres to date. Data from the sixth mission is currently under analysis. No contacts of interest have been found to date.
Bluefin-21 AUV's seventh mission has commenced. The weather forecast for today is isolated showers and south easterly winds.