The waiting world's hopes for good news over the missing Malaysian Airlines 777 came to an end on Monday when the Malaysian Prime Minister announced that signal analysis of the plane's last signals showed it had flown deep into the area of the southern Indian Ocean. He also announced that there are no survivors expected to be found.

It is believed that the aircraft had flown so far into the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean, there was no possibility that it could have made landfall anywhere in the world with the remain fuel that it carried onboard.

A perplexed world searched for the plane and answers as to the disappearance of the aircraft since its disappearance on March 8 on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Early reports brought searchers to mainland Asia and the ocean north of Malaysia. Then, in the days following, searchers began to focus to the west of Malaysia with little hint why the search area had changed.

As the world speculated on the cause of the aircraft’s disappearance, little was revealed by the officials organizing the search. Suspicious eyes briefly peered at two Iranian men traveling to Germany on stolen passports, their complicity was soon ruled out by officials however.

Rumors that perhaps a passenger with anti-chinese motives played a hand in the disappearnace gained headway as well for a time. Then it was speculated that perhaps the pilot himself had something to do with the disappearance. But, with lack of evidence and no wreckage found, soon even these suspicions began to wane.

What did remain strong though, was the hope that the aircraft would be found and survivors would reunite with their waiting families. But, even those hopes were dashed on Monday night, when authorities sent out a 26-word text message to waiting families informing them that the aircraft had crashed into the southern Indian Ocean and there were no expectation of survivors.

As of today, poor weather conditions, complete with high winds and rain have hampered further search efforts and the search has been postponed until tomorrow. As many as twelve aircraft are expected to take part in the resumed search on Wednesday.

Also tomorrow, a special U.S. Navy ship, equipped to tow a Pinger Locator will reach Australia on its trip to the zone where the aircraft is believed to lay in the southern Indian Ocean. Once in the area, the ship will tow the Pinger Locator through the area in hopes of picking up the ping that the aircraft’s black box is designed to send out. That Pinger Locator and a Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle were flown into Perth to be paired with the U.S. Naval ship. The towed device can detect a ping from the black box from as deep as 20,000 feet.

In response to Malaysia’s announcement, China has demanded that Malaysia hand over the data they used to determine that the aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean.