This image provided by China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense shows a floating object seen at sea next to the descriptor which was added by the source. The image was captured around noon, on March 18, 2014 (Tuesday) by a Chinese satellite in S44’57 E90’13 in south Indian Ocean. It shows what is suspected to be a floating object 22 meters long and 13 meters wide. It is about 120 km south (slightly to the west) of the suspected objects released by Australia. AP
KUALA LUMPUR — Australia has spotted two objects in the search for Malaysia’s missing plane in the southern Indian Ocean and was sending a ship to investigate, Malaysia’s transport minister said Monday.
“A few minutes ago the (Malaysian) prime minister received a call from the prime minister of Australia, who informed him that an Australian search aircraft had located two objects in the Australian search area, one circular and one rectangular,” Hishammuddin Hussein said.
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