In pictures: Search for missing MH370 ramps up

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  Japanese Disaster Relief Team members walk to a P3-C aircraft before its departure for Australia at Subang Air base in Subang, Selangor, Malaysia. Ahmad Yusni / EPA

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  Ground crew members stand in front of a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P3C patrol plane before it leaves the Royal Malaysian Air Force base for Australia to join a search and rescue operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines, flight MH370, in Subang, Malaysia. Lai Seng Sin / AP

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  A ground crewman carries out a pre-flight check on a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion prior to its takes off at RAAF Pearce Base to join the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Perth, Australia. Rob Griffith / AP

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  A Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force Personnel looks on as she stands to wave to her colleagues on a PC3 aircraft before taking off for Australia to join the search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Mohd Rasfan / AFP

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  A Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force Personnel looks out through a window before taking off for Australia to join the search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang. Mohd Rasfan / AFP

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  A crewman aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searches for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean. Jason Reed / Reuters

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  A ground crewman carries out a pre-flight check on a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion prior to its takes off at RAAF Pearce Base to join the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Rob Griffith / AP

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  A Chinese Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft, expected to join the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, is pictured at the RAAF base Pearce in Bullsbrook near Perth. Jason Reed / AP

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  A Royal Australian Air Force AP3C Orion leaves RAAF Pearce Air Base in Perth, Australia. Rob Griffith / EPA / Pool

The Australian-led search for missing Flight MH370 was ramped up Sunday after a plane spotted unidentified debris in the Indian Ocean, following fresh Chinese satellite images showing a large floating object in the same remote region.