New objects seen but none recovered in jet search
Source: AP-Excite
By ROB GRIFFITH and GILLIAN WONG
PERTH, Australia (AP) - A Chinese aircraft flying over the search zone for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Saturday spotted several objects floating in the sea, including two bearing colors of the missing plane, but it was not immediately clear whether they were related to the investigation, officials said.
A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 spotted three floating objects, China's official Xinhua News Agency said, a day after several planes and ships combing the newly targeted area closer to mainland Australia saw several other objects.
Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters near Kuala Lumpur after meeting several families of passengers on the plane that there was no new information on the objects spotted Friday, which could just be just sea trash or could be from the jetliner, which went missing three weeks ago.
"I've got to wait to get the reports on whether they have retrieved those objects. ... Those will give us some indication," said Hishammuddin, who was accompanied by his wife and children as he visited the relatives at a hotel in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
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A photo taken off a computer monitor onboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion, shows an object floating in an area within the search zone of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Australian Maritime Safety Authority has not confirmed any information about this object. Australian officials said that objects spotted floating in the search area need to be recovered and inspected before they can be linked to the plane. The objects, first spotted Friday, include two rectangular items that were blue and gray, and ships on the scene will attempt to recover them, the AMSA said. (AP Photo/Tony Cheng, Pool)
