Planes and ships searching for debris suspected of being from the missing Malaysian jetliner failed to find any Thursday before bad weather cut their hunt short, as Thailand said one of its satellites had spotted hundreds of objects in the area.
The Thai satellite spotted about 300 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean near an area where planes and ships have been hunting unsuccessfully for a week for any sign of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people aboard.
The images from the Thai satellite showed "300 objects of various sizes" in the ocean, about 2,700 kilometres southwest of Perth, said Anond Snidvongs, director of Thailand's space technology development agency.
He said the images, taken Monday by the Thaichote satellite, took two days to process and were relayed to Malaysian authorities on Wednesday.
The objects were about 200 kilometres from the area where a French satellite on Sunday spotted 122 objects, Anond said. The objects ranged in size from two metres to 16 metres long.
The announcement came after the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said it had to pull back all 11 planes scheduled to take part in the search Thursday because of heavy rain, winds and low clouds. Five ships continued the hunt.
All but three of the planes — a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon, a Japanese P-3 Orion and a Japanese Gulfstream jet — reached the search zone, about 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth, before the air search was suspended, AMSA spokesman Sam Cardwell said.
27/03/14 Associated Press/CBC News
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The Thai satellite spotted about 300 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean near an area where planes and ships have been hunting unsuccessfully for a week for any sign of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people aboard.
The images from the Thai satellite showed "300 objects of various sizes" in the ocean, about 2,700 kilometres southwest of Perth, said Anond Snidvongs, director of Thailand's space technology development agency.
He said the images, taken Monday by the Thaichote satellite, took two days to process and were relayed to Malaysian authorities on Wednesday.
The objects were about 200 kilometres from the area where a French satellite on Sunday spotted 122 objects, Anond said. The objects ranged in size from two metres to 16 metres long.
The announcement came after the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said it had to pull back all 11 planes scheduled to take part in the search Thursday because of heavy rain, winds and low clouds. Five ships continued the hunt.
All but three of the planes — a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon, a Japanese P-3 Orion and a Japanese Gulfstream jet — reached the search zone, about 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth, before the air search was suspended, AMSA spokesman Sam Cardwell said.
27/03/14 Associated Press/CBC News
