A Chinese satellite has identified another object in the Indian Ocean that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines airliner.
The object is about 22.5 metres long and 13 metres wide.
Chinese ships and planes were heading towards the area on Saturday night.
Chinese media is reporting the object was sighted 120 kilometres from where two objects were identified by Australia, where the search has been focused until now.
China’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur advised Malaysian authorities of the sighting late on Saturday.
Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein announced the finding after being handed a note during a press briefing where he expressed concern about a category one cyclone forming the Indian Ocean near Australia’s remote Christmas Island.
Ships from China and other nations joining the search may have to pass through the cyclone danger area, Mr Hishammuddin said.
Malaysian authorities said the transcript of a purported recording of the conversations between the pilots and air traffic control in Kuala Lumpur before MH370 inexplicably turned around over the South China Sea on Match 8 was inaccurate. But Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director-general of Malaysia’s civil aviation department, declined to say to elaborate where the transcript was inaccurate.
Mr Hishammuddin told journalists investigators are still analysing the conversations and the transcript would not be made public.
But he said there did not appear to be anything “abnormal” in the conversations.
source:smh.com.au
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