Beijing: A Singaporean vessel participating in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has informed Vietnamese authorities that it has found some “suspicious objects” that may be from the missing aircraft, Vietnamese media said Sunday afternoon.
It was not immediately clear where the objects were discovered or what they were. Aircraft and ships were searching an area of some 3,900 square miles off the southern tip of Vietnam in the waters of the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea.
Vietnamese boats on Sunday reached an oil slick spotted late Saturday by Vietnamese surveillance aircraft, but found no sign of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Agence France-Press reported. The jet went missing early Saturday with 239 people aboard en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said one of its patrol ships had found a large oil slick 100 nautical miles from the city of Tok Bali on Sunday, the agency’s director-general said at a news conference.
The director-general, Mohd Amdan Kurish, said the ship was ordered to collect samples of the oil to determine if it came from the plane, Malaysia’s state-run Bernama news agency reported.
09/03/13 Julie Makinen/Los Angeles Times
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It was not immediately clear where the objects were discovered or what they were. Aircraft and ships were searching an area of some 3,900 square miles off the southern tip of Vietnam in the waters of the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea.
Vietnamese boats on Sunday reached an oil slick spotted late Saturday by Vietnamese surveillance aircraft, but found no sign of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Agence France-Press reported. The jet went missing early Saturday with 239 people aboard en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said one of its patrol ships had found a large oil slick 100 nautical miles from the city of Tok Bali on Sunday, the agency’s director-general said at a news conference.
The director-general, Mohd Amdan Kurish, said the ship was ordered to collect samples of the oil to determine if it came from the plane, Malaysia’s state-run Bernama news agency reported.
09/03/13 Julie Makinen/Los Angeles Times
