Debris spotted in Indian Ocean
The announcement came
the same day as Australian officials said they had spotted two objects
in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the flight, which
has been missing since March 8 with 239 people aboard.
One object is "a grey or
green circular object," and the other is "an orange rectangular
object," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
Hishammuddin Hussein,
Malaysia's acting transportation minister, said Monday that Australian
authorities hoped to retrieve the objects by Tuesday morning. The
Australian naval ship HMAS Success was steaming toward the location at
last word Monday evening.
A look inside the search for MH370
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Two objects located in ocean
The objects are the
latest in a series of sightings, including "suspicious objects" reported
earlier Monday by a Chinese military plane that was searching in the
same region, authorities said.
A U.S. surveillance
plane sent to follow up was unable to find the objects, and so far, none
of the sightings has been definitively linked to Flight 370.
Ten aircraft -- from Australia, China the United States and Japan -- searched the area Monday.
China said Monday after the Prime Minister's announcement that it would be sending more ships to help search for the aircraft.
China has a particularly
large stake in the search: Its citizens made up about two-thirds of the
passengers on the missing Boeing 777.
Beijing, which has
repeatedly called on Malaysian authorities to step up efforts to find
the plane, repeated those calls Monday after the Prime Minister's
announcement.
China is paying "high
attention" to the Malaysian announcement that the plane had gone down in
the ocean, and asked authorities there for "all information and
evidence leading up to such a conclusion," according to a statement
posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website.
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