The search for two large objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has resumed in the southern Indian Ocean.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said Friday's operation would involve five aircraft, including three RAAF Orions, and a US Navy P8 Poseidon.
The planes are scouring a remote area of 8,800 sq miles (23,000 sq km).
Flight Lt Conan Brett pilots a RAAF Hercules aircraft during the search Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said the country was doing everything it could to find the suspected debris and to keep the families of the passengers informed of the progress.
"We owe it to the families, the friends and the loved ones of the nearly 240 people on board flight MH370 to do everything we can to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary riddle," he said at a news conference.
"Because of the understandable state of anxiety they're in, we also owe it to them to give them information as soon as we get it to hand.
The area where the search will concentrate on today "We have five aircraft searching the area. We're looking for a visual that was picked up on satellite imagery and as soon as we have additional information we'll make it available."
A Norwegian merchant ship - the first vessel to reach the vicinity - has been using searchlights through the night to try to locate the objects.
They were spotted by a satellite last Sunday and could potentially be debris from flight MH370.
One is thought to be 24 metres in length and the other about five metres.
Thursday search was hampered by strong winds, cloud and rain.
HMS Echo is heading towards the region The sightings have been deemed "credible" and a "potentially important development" by authorities - as the search for the passenger plane enters its 13th day.
Australian naval vessel HMAS Success, which is capable of retrieving debris, is also en route to the search area but is some days away.
A British naval survey ship, HMS Echo, is also heading to the region.
There has been no trace of the aircraft since it vanished from radar a short distance into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.
Wider searches, including of a northern corridor from northern Thailand to Kazakhstan, are set to continue until investigators are certain they have located the plane. Some 18 ships and 29 aircraft are taking part.
Those areas were targeted after faint electronic "pings" picked up by one commercial satellite suggested flight MH370 flew on for at least six hours after it disappeared from air traffic control screens.
Willie Walsh, chief executive of the International Airlines Group, said he was baffled by the disappearance of the aircraft.
Satellite images show the possible plane debris "My deepest sympathies to everybody associated with this, it must be truly awful for the families and friends of the passengers and crew," he told Sky's Jeff Randall Live.
"I'm baffled; I must have heard twenty, thirty, maybe even forty theories on what has happened and quite honestly, we just don't know.
"I've been in this industry 35 years and I've never seen anything like this. I'm confident that with the technology today and the fact accident investigation has progressed significantly, we will ultimately find out."
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