Chinese aircrew have spotted “suspicious objects” in the southern Indian Ocean in the search for vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Chinese official Xinhua news agency said Monday.
It gave no immediate further details, but an earlier Xinhua report said a Chinese military plane set off early Monday from the western Australian city of Perth to seek “suspicious debris” floating in the remote waters captured by satellite imagery.
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board on a flight to Beijing on March 8.
Earlier on Thursday, Australian PM Tony Abbott announced that two objects had been seen that could possibly relate to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
On Saturday, China said it had a new satellite image of what could be wreckage from a missing Malaysian airliner, as more planes and ships headed to join an international search operation scouring some of the remotest seas on Earth.
Thesearch planes returned empty-handed from their hunt through rough seas for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Two Chinese military Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft, two Australian P3 Orions and two ultra-long range civilian jets were in the early search party on Monday. Another ultra-long range jet, a US Navy P8 Poseidon and two Japanese P3 Orions were due to depart later in the day.
