So far, no debris that can be identified as linked to the aircraft has been found and the Bluefin has not recorded any data that shows promise in finding any wreckage.

Bad weather resulted in an interruption to the aerial search Tuesday morning as Tropical Cyclone Jack headed southeast toward the search zone. The agency said 10 ships remained in the area, and five planes had left Pearce air base near Perth before the search was halted, but a further five would remain grounded for the day.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center said in a separate email, “If we don’t find the wreckage, we will then stop, regroup and reconsider.” But there has been no word on whether authorities have called for deep-sea equipment with greater capabilities, or if other methods would be used to better calculate where the plane may have gone into the ocean. The Australian authorities believe that the plane could be sitting in silt, as much as 15,000 feet down into the ocean — a depth that has already tested the capabilities of the Bluefin-21.

“The search will continue,” the agency said in an email Tuesday. “We are currently consulting very closely with our international partners on the best way to effect this for the future.”