The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was set to resume Sunday with greater resources and boosted by a new satellite image of unidentified floating debris.
Coordinating the hunt in the vast southern Indian Ocean, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said further attempts would be made to establish whether the objects sighted were related to MH370.
A grainy March 18 photo released by China's State Administration of Science Technology and Industry showed an object measuring 22.5m by 13m (74 by 43 feet) in the southern Indian Ocean.
The location was just 120km (75 miles) distant from where March 16 satellite images - released by Australia on Thursday - had detected two pieces of possible wreckage in the remote ocean about 2,500km (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth.
"AMSA has plotted the position and it falls within Saturday's search area," the statement said.
"The object was not sighted on Saturday. AMSA will take this information into account in tomorrow's (Sunday's) search plans.
The Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Success arrived late Saturday in the search area where two merchant ships were also taking part in the effort that turned up sightings of other objects during good weather conditions on Saturday.
"A civil aircraft... reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres," AMSA said.
"A Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion aircraft with specialist electro-optic observation equipment was diverted to the location, arriving after the first aircraft left but only reported sighting clumps of seaweed."
23/03/14 The Star
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Coordinating the hunt in the vast southern Indian Ocean, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said further attempts would be made to establish whether the objects sighted were related to MH370.
A grainy March 18 photo released by China's State Administration of Science Technology and Industry showed an object measuring 22.5m by 13m (74 by 43 feet) in the southern Indian Ocean.
The location was just 120km (75 miles) distant from where March 16 satellite images - released by Australia on Thursday - had detected two pieces of possible wreckage in the remote ocean about 2,500km (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth.
"AMSA has plotted the position and it falls within Saturday's search area," the statement said.
"The object was not sighted on Saturday. AMSA will take this information into account in tomorrow's (Sunday's) search plans.
The Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Success arrived late Saturday in the search area where two merchant ships were also taking part in the effort that turned up sightings of other objects during good weather conditions on Saturday.
"A civil aircraft... reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres," AMSA said.
"A Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion aircraft with specialist electro-optic observation equipment was diverted to the location, arriving after the first aircraft left but only reported sighting clumps of seaweed."
23/03/14 The Star
