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March 30, 2014, 8:03 am
Objects have been discovered in the new search area for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
A number of objects have been retrieved from the search zone for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
HMAS Success and a Chinese ship has retrieved the objects overnight, but so far no there has been no confirmation that the objects are linked to the missing plane.
Australia's Defence Minister says it could take days to find solid evidence.
The retrieval of the objects, comes after a Chinese surveillance plane reported finding 3 objects colored white, red and orange.
The latest sightings come after New Zealand released more details about a cluster of 11 white rectangular objects spotted just below the surface about 1600 kilometres west of Perth.
"It's hard to identify because all you're seeing is this one-metre rectangular piece of material," New Zealand Air Vice-Marshal Kevin Short told media yesterday.
The 11 objects were within five metres of each other and there were objects up to a couple of hundred miles away as well, he said.
An unconfirmed image from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Photo: Twitter
"There seems to be patches of these objects and that's not unexpected, looking at how long the aircraft's been missing.
"If they're from that aircraft it's not unusual to have them separated by hundreds of miles."
The objects would be photographed, with the images sent to investigators, then transported to Perth for further investigation, he said.
Five aircraft spotted multiple objects of various colours during Friday’s search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority tweeted on Friday that a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion would supply pictures of the objects as soon as it landed at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Pearce, north of Perth.
The RNZAF P3 Orion reported sighting a number of objects white or light in colour and a fishing buoy.
A RAAF P3 Orion relocated the objects detected by the RNZAF Orion and reported it had seen two blue/grey rectangular objects floating in the ocean.
A second RAAF P3 Orion spotted various objects of various colours in a separate part of the search area about 546 kilometres away.
The sighting came on the first day of searching in a new area of the Indian Ocean, following information that prompted authorities to re-focus efforts to locate the missing jet.
Searching on board the RAAF AP-3C Orion. Photo: AMSA
- Search moves north -
The international air and sea search for missing Malaysian flight MH370 moved more than 1000km north on Friday after new information that the plane was travelling faster than first thought.
A multinational fleet of planes and ships raced to a fresh search zone after a "credible new lead" that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was flying faster than first thought before it plunged into the remote Indian Ocean.
Ten aircraft from six countries -- Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States -- diverted to an area 1,100 kilometres northeast of where they have been looking for a week, far off western Australia.
Five Chinese ships and an Australian naval vessel were also steaming to the new zone of interest after the weather cleared following the suspension of the air search Thursday due to thunderstorms and high winds, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
AMSA image of the new MH370 search area.
"The new information is based on continuing analysis of radar data between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca before radar contact was lost (with the missing plane)," AMSA said.
"It indicated that the aircraft was travelling faster than previously estimated, resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possible distance the aircraft travelled south into the Indian Ocean."
The new area is closer to land, meaning planes can spend more time searching before having to return to refuel, and the weather is expected to be better there.
The new search area "has moved out of the Roaring Forties (strong westerly winds), which creates very adverse weather frequently", AMSA chief John Young told reporters in Canberra.
- More satellite sightings -
Satellite sightings of unidentified debris in recent days have raised hopes of finding wreckage from the Boeing 777.
Yesterday, Thailand reported a satellite sighting of 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean.
The objects, ranging from two to 15m, were scattered over an area about 2,700 kilometres southwest of Perth, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency.
"But we cannot -- dare not -- confirm they are debris from the plane," the agency's executive director, Anond Snidvongs, told AFP.
Images from a Thai satellite have found more objects possibly from missing flight MH370. Photo: Supplied
He said the information had been given to Malaysia.
Despite the development, relatives of those missing on board the Boeing 777 say the information is “useless” without real answers.
The pictures were taken by Thailand's only earth observation satellite on Monday but needed several days to process, Anond added.
He said the objects were spotted about 200km away from an area where French satellite images earlier showed potential objects in the search for the Boeing 777 which vanished on March 8 with 239 people aboard.
Thailand faced criticism after announcing more than a week after the jet's disappearance that its radar had picked up an "unknown aircraft" minutes after flight MH370 last transmitted its location.
The satellite images dated 23 March that show 122 potential pieces of debris from the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370. Photo: MRSA.
The Thai air force said it did not report the findings earlier as the plane was not considered a threat.
The Malaysia Airlines plane is presumed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean after mysteriously diverting from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing path and apparently flying for hours in the opposite direction.
Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Centre's study showed the objects it sighted on Wednesday were up to eight metres in length and four metres wide. Jiji Press cited an official at the office as saying they were "highly likely" to be from the plane.
The Thai and Japanese sightings came after satellite data from Australia, China and France had also shown floating objects possibly related to flight MH370. But nothing has so far been retrieved despite the huge multinational search.
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- Multi-national search -
The Australian Navy's HMAS Success is expected to arrive in the search area late on Saturday night.
A US-towed pinger locator and Bluefin-21 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle have arrived in Perth to assist with location and recovery of the black box.
Any wreckage found would be handed over to Malaysian authorities.
Lieutenant Commander Mike Trumbull on the US Navy P-8A Poseidon. Picture: US Navy
- 'We are extremely grateful for such support'-
Malaysia Airlines group chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the Australian government had given immense support to the national carrier, from co-ordinating the search to offering an exemption of the visa application process for families of passengers and crew on board MH370.
“Malaysia Airlines will be making arrangements to take family members to Perth, should physical wreckage be found,” he said.
“We are extremely grateful for such support.
“Whilst we understand that there will inevitably be speculation during this period, we do ask people to bear in mind the effect this has on the families of all those on board. “Their anguish and distress increases with each passing day, with each fresh rumour, and with each false or misleading report.
- Race to find the black box-
Searchers racing to find flight MH370's "black box" face daunting hurdles ranging from undersea volcanoes to mountainous seas as they operate in one of Earth's most remote locations, experts have said.
They warned there was no guarantee that an unprecedented international search operation involving the militaries of six nations would succeed in retrieving wreckage of the doomed Malaysian Airlines plane which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday said the search zone -- in the southern Indian Ocean some 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth -- was "as close to nowhere as it's possible to be".
University of New South Wales oceanographer Erik van Sebille said the crash site was in an area known as "the Roaring Forties", notorious among mariners for its hostile seas.
"In general, this is the windiest and waviest part of the ocean," he said. "In winter, if a storm passes by you can expect waves of 10-15 metres."
The Soufan Group, a US-based strategic security intelligence consultancy, likened searching for debris in such conditions to "finding a drifting needle in a chaotic, colour-changing, perception-shifting, motion-sickness-inducing haystack".
"A random wave might obscure the object when the eyes pass over it; sun glare off the water may blind momentarily; a look two degrees to the left when the object is most visible may cause the moment to pass," it said.
Even if the search does find verifiable wreckage from MH370 on the surface, geologist Robin Beaman said underwater volcanoes would probably hamper efforts to recover the black box flight recorder from the depths.
-The final moments of flight MH370-
The Malaysian authorities at the forefront of the missing MH370 investigation have revealed that the flight most probably plunged into the southern Indian Ocean between 8:11am and 9:15am on Saturday March 8.
Malaysia’s Defence and acting Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said the new details were the result of never-before-used technology that has helped traced the Boeing 777's final moments on a deadly flight path.
MH370's last complete "handshake" was last captured on an Inmarsat satellite that was covering two massive southern and northern corridors at 8:11am.
Just eight minutes later, there is evidence of a partial handshake with the ground station.
Sometime between 8:19am and 9:15am, all communication was lost.
Investigating authorities have concluded that the Malaysia Airlines flight crashed into a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean during that final 56 minutes because the jet would have been out of fuel.
It could have been a last transmission signalling a "catastrophic" event was about to occur.
“There is evidence of a partial ‘handshake’ (ping) between the aircraft and ground station at 00:19 GMT,” said acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein.
“This transmission is not understood and is subject to further ongoing work”
Thomas Withington, a defence electronics analyst, told the UK’s Telegraph newspaper: “It sounds like the aircraft began to squawk a message and for some reason this was curtailed.”
“It could be because the aircraft was at a catastrophic phase of flight — that something was causing it to crash — or there could be some atmospheric disturbance.”
- Pilot 'not in state of mind to fly' - A friend of the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said he was going through marriage problems at the time the plane went missing.
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was reportedly going through a separation with his wife, and problems with another woman he was seeing at the time, in the days leading up to the disappearance.
The friend told the New Zealand Herald that Captain Zaharie was "terribly upset" and may have been taking the flight to a place he'd never been before.
"He's one of the finest pilots around and I'm no medical expert, but with all that was happening in his life Zaharie was probably in no state of mind to be flying," the friend said.
Captain Zaharie was known to be a big fan of flying, and investigators were still examining a home-made flight simulator set up in his house.
Several files were reportedly deleted from the simulator a month before the plane disappeared on March 8.
The friend told the New Zealand Herald he had spoken several times with Captain Zaharie, and that they had talked about him simulating situations such as flying at very high or very low altitudes.
"It is very possible that neither the passengers nor the other crew on-board knew what was happening until it was too late," the man said.
The new suspicion comes on the back of claims from an official that the incident was a deliberate attempt at suicide.
"This has been a deliberate act by someone on-board who had to have the detailed knowledge to do what was done," the newspaper's source said.
Capatain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was the main pilot on missing Malaysia AIrlines flight MH370. Photo: Supplied
- 'I know my father better' -
The son of one of the pilots at the helm of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has spoken for the first time.
Ahmad Seth, the youngest son of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, has defended his father saying that the veteran pilot would not be involved in the plane's disappearance.
“I’ve read everything online. But I’ve ignored all the speculation. I know my father better,” the the New Strait Times quoted him as saying.
“We may not be as close as he travels so much. But I understand him,” he said.
Questions have been raised about Captain Zaharie after reports that the man had political connections with Malaysia's opposition party, and that he had problems at home in the weeks before the flight disappeared.
The FBI was reportedly examining a flight simulator that Captain Zaharie kept at his home, in particular files that were deleted from the computer a month before MH370's fateful flight.
He also said that, while he still held a glimmer of hope, he wasn't surprised by the Malaysia prime minister's announcement the plane was lost with no chance of survivors.
"Now, we are just waiting for the right confirmation (for the wreckage or bodies)," he was quoted as saying.
"I will believe it (that there are no survivors) when I see the proof in front of my eyes."
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