A satellite has spotted 122 'potential objects' in the southern Indian Ocean in the search for the missing Malaysia Airline plane. The objects measured between one metre and 23 metres in length and were identified in an area of 400 sq km off the western Australian coast.
Some appeared to be bright, according to Malaysian officials. The items were captured in satellite images from French company Airbus which were taken on Sunday March 23rd.
Malaysian investigators received the pictures on Tuesday and after analysing them, they identified 122 possible objects which were about 2550 km from the Australian city of Perth.
Members of Australian Department of Defence search the area from above
The findings were then forwarded to the Australian search command centre.
At the moment, it is not known if the objects were connected to missing flight MH370 which crashed into the Indian Ocean several hours after it disappeared from air traffic control screens.
Meanwhile searches are continuing for the passenger jet after weather conditions in the southern Indian Ocean improved.
12 planes and two boats are heading to the suspected crash site. They will cover an area of 30,000 square miles.
Six countries in total are involved in the search operation.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his country will keep searching until there is "absolutely no hope of finding anything".
"Today's search is split into three areas within the same proximity covering a cumulative 80,000 sq km," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
The missing passenger jet vanished on March 8th on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
Before the weather stopped the search, hopes had been high that wreckage would be found after several sightings of objects, including a green circular item and an orange rectangular one.
If the debris is found the US Navy has a state of the art submersible sonar device which can track the pings from the black box data recorder.
Paul Nelson is from the American company that developed it.
Officials earlier announced the hunt had been narrowed to the southern tip of the southern flight corridor the plane is thought to have followed.
The hunt - which at one stage involved 26 countries - was called off in the northern corridor of the Indian Ocean.
The search resumes amid heavy criticism of Malaysia and the airline from the relatives of the on 239 people on the flight.
Dozens of angry Chinese people clashed with police in a protest outside the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing. Most of the passengers were Chinese.
China has also demanded Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that the plane crashed into the ocean.
