SYDNEY, Australia — China, Japan and Britain will join the search for signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines airliner far off Australia’s west coast, where Australian aircraft used human spotters on Friday to scan a remote expanse of ocean for floating debris that might be wreckage from the airliner. They found none.
The expansion of the multinational operation in the southern Indian Ocean illustrated how the bleak search for the missing jet has partly dampened regional tensions. China and Japan are locked in a dispute over islands in the East China Sea but their forces will work in coordination with a sophisticated United States Navy surveillance plane and Australian military P-3 Orion planes and vessels.
Two days of searching the ocean 1,500 miles southwest of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, have brought no sightings of possible debris from the plane.
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