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Flight MH370: Chinese and Australian ships draw blank

Footage shows the moment Chinese searchers spotted new debris on Saturday, as Andy Moore explains

MH370 mystery


A Chinese and an Australian ship have failed to identify remains from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after their first day in a new search area.
The two ships retrieved objects from the Indian Ocean but none was confirmed to be from missing flight MH370, Australia's maritime authority said.
Chinese aircraft also flew over the area, north-east of the previous zone, and have spotted more objects.
The airliner disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board.
Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 and Australia's HMAS Success "reported they have retrieved a number of objects from the ocean but so far no objects confirmed to be related to MH370 have been recovered", theAustralian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) said late on Saturday.
Did previous photos show plane debris?
  • Satellite images so far could show anything from lost shipping containers or drifting garbage to fragments of Flight MH370
  • Among ocean experts, opinion differs over how much non-plane debris is in the area
  • Southern Indian Ocean is one of world's least researched areas
  • In absence of better data, retrieving floating debris can help narrow search for "black box" recorders
  • But shortage of live satellite data, turbulence and passage of time since flight's disappearance hamper search for debris

The BBC's Jon Donnison spent Friday with Australian air crews looking for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370,
Eight aircraft also took part in the operation. One Chinese plane reported spotting spotted three orange, white and red objects floating in the sea.
Some of the objects seen in the area have been very small, and officials cautioned that they may be sea junk.
Amsa said that "at least one distinctive fishing object has been identified".

On Friday five search planes spotted multiple objects of various colours in the same area - about 1,100km (700 miles) north-east of the previous search zone.
Bad weather has hampered the search efforts in recent days.
Meanwhile Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein says he has reassured the families of the missing passengers that the search for any survivors will continue.
Some relatives of the flight's 153 Chinese passengers have refused to accept the Malaysian account of events and have accused officials of withholding information.
Acting Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein: "If there is any lead or information that involves survivors, that has been our priority"
"No matter how remote the search, I am always hoping against hope that we will find survivors," Mr Hishammuddin told the latest news conference following a meeting with the families on Saturday.
Burning more fuel
The Australian and Malaysian governments said on Friday the search area had been changed following further analysis of radar data that showed the plane had been travelling faster, thus burning more fuel.
This would reduce the possible distance the aircraft travelled south into the Indian Ocean, officials said.
Search efforts had until Friday morning focused on an area some 2,500km (1,550 miles) to the south-west of the Australian city of Perth.
Some of the items spotted were "sea junk", as Andy Moore reports
map showing search areas and debris spotted
Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 starts search in new areaThe Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 has started searching the new area
Relative of a Chinese passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, smokes next to a message board dedicated to passengers, in Beijing, 29 March.Relatives of Chinese passengers have been anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones
Malaysian officials have concluded that, based on satellite data, the missing plane flew into the sea somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. So far no trace of it has been found.

MH370 - Facts at a glance

  • 8 March - Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight carrying 239 people disappears
  • Plane's transponder, which gives out location data, was switched off as it left Malaysian airspace
  • Satellite 'pings' indicate plane was still flying seven hours after satellite contact was lost
  • 24 March - Based on new calculations, Malaysian PM says "beyond reasonable doubt" that plane crashed in southern Indian Ocean with no survivors
Various theories about what went wrong have been suggested - including the captain hijacking his own plane.
The speculation was fuelled by reports that files had been deleted on the pilot's home flight simulator.
However Mr Hishammuddin said investigators who had looked at the equipment had turned up no new information.
"There is nothing sinister from the simulators but of course that will have to be confirmed by the chief of police,'' he said.
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 vanished less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
The airliner diverted off course and lost contact with air traffic controllers between Malaysian and Vietnamese air-traffic control areas.
The vast expanse of ocean has turned the search into a major challenge.


Et kinesisk fartøy er i området nær der gjenstander, antakelig etter et fly, er å finne. Står bare om timer før det endelig er bekreftet at søket har vært vellykket, men veldig vanskelig. Det er helt sikkert utarbeidet modeller for drift basert på kjente havstrømmer og vind i perioden. Det er bare en drøy uke til senderen på FDR stopper å sende sitt 37,5KHz ping.

Missing plane: Abbott on 'inhospitable sea' search

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Australia's prime minister has confirmed that air search teams spotted debris on Friday that may be linked to the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.
Tony Abbott said no items have been recovered in the search despite good weather conditions.

Satellite images show possible debris

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Malaysia Flight 370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean, officials say
  • There have been hundreds of objects seen but nothing has been the real deal
  • Latest sighting? 300 objects spotted by a Thai satellite
(CNN) -- They've been spotted and spotted again, those objects in the southern Indian Ocean. Every time a report comes out that something has been seen that may be related to missing Malaysia Flight 370, hopes have risen. And then, they have fallen. It's seemed like a daily exercise.
For instance, images taken by a Thai satellite and released Thursday showed about 300 objects ranging in size from 6 feet (2 meters) to 50 feet (15 meters). When photographed Monday, they were about 125 miles (201 kilometers) away from the spot where a French satellite captured images of a floating group of objects Sunday.
Could it be?
Read: More objects spotted
The sole representative of families of passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 leaves a conference at a Beijing hotel on Friday, March 28, after other relatives left en masse to protest the Malaysian government's response to their questions. Authorities are combing thousands of square miles of the southern Indian Ocean in search of the wreckage of Flight 370, which disappeared March 8. Malaysian authorities declared that the plane had most likely been lost with all aboard in the remote sea ar off Australia.



The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 
370. Synopsis

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 Photos: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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Captain: We found no evidence of MH370
Knowing for sure is a waiting game. It will be at least Friday before planes can try to find the materials because bad weather in the remote spot has again hampered searching.
Here's a rundown of how many times we've been through this:
On March 9, Vietnam's navy spotted a floating object about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Vietnam's Tho Chu Island, which is off the country's southwest coast in the Gulf of Thailand, Vietnam National Search and Rescue Committee spokesman Hung Nguyen told CNN. Vietnamese navy rescue aircraft spotted the object in the evening hours local time. Because of the dark, the navy aircraft could not get close enough to identify the floating object and was recalled to base. Three search and rescue boats were deployed to that location.
Read: Vast waters hide clues for plane hunt
Several days later, a Chinese satellite had a sighting that captured a lot of interest but it was later retracted as a mistake. It was not in the southern Indian ocean.
Read: Satellite looking into missing Malaysia flight detects 'suspected crash area'
China said it captured a "suspected floating object" on March 18. The object the Chinese photographed was 22.5 meters long and 13 meters wide (74 feet by 43 feet), officials said.
Read: Australian leader cites 'credible leads' as Flight 370 search resumes
Around March 19, it was reported that witnesses on the ground claimed they saw Flight 370. A man from New Zealand working on an oil rig off Vietnam claimed he saw a burning object in the sky on the morning of March 8, hours after the plane had taken off from Kuala Lumpur on its way to Beijing.
Read: Flying low? Burning object?
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Up-close look at parts of Boeing 777
Then came reports that had many believing "This is it!" and headlines carried the news. But it turned out to be nothing. On March 20, CNN quoted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott as saying that authorities had spotted two objects in the Indian Ocean that were possibly related to the search for missing Flight 370.
Those objects have not been found.
During a March 22 search, a civil aircraft reported that it had spotted some small objects floating, including a wooden pallet, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said. These objects were within a radius of about three miles.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion was sent to the area, but only reported seeing bunches of seaweed, AMSA said.
Read: Australian leader cites 'credible leads' as Flight 370 search resumes
On March 24, Australian officials said they saw two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the flight. One object was "a gray or green circular object," and the other was "an orange rectangular object,"according to AMSA.
Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, appeared on CNN to explain why those objects seemed intriguing. Read her comments
"The gray/green is the color of the inside of the aircraft," she said. "A great number of pieces of metal and other things in the aircraft are of gray/green color, everything from the metal in the fuselage and pieces of the mechanical parts..."
Orange and bright yellow "are the color of the emergency escape slides, the life rafts inside the plane," she said. "The life vests, but they wouldn't be that big. So there are many things that are those colors that could be a signal that it's not something that has fallen off a ship but rather that it's something from out of a plane."
The Australian naval ship HMAS Success didn't turn up the objects when it searched Monday night, AMSA said.
There is no word yet if those objects have been found or what they are.
Also on Monday, a Chinese military plane said it had seen "suspicious objects" in the same area.A U.S. surveillance plane sent to follow up was unable to find them.
Read: Flight 370: Storm of emotions over lives 'lost' as storm at sea delays search
On Wednesday, a French defense firm provided new satellite images that showed 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean, not far from other satellite sightings that could be related to Flight 370, Malaysia's acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Bin Hussein said.
The objects were scattered over 154 square miles (400 square kilometers), he said.
Hishammuddin said he wasn't sure if Australian authorities coordinating the search for the plane Wednesday had been able to follow up on the new satellite images, which came from Airbus Defence and Space.
Read: Best lead yet? Satellite spots possible debris field in search for Flight 370
Read: Did flammable cargo doom Flight 370?
Read: China treads carefully amid the anger and grief of MH370 relatives
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