The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was set to widen with greater resources and boosted by a new satellite image of unidentified floating debris. Coordinating the hunt in the vast southern Indian Ocean, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said overnight “further attempts will be made to establish whether the objects sighted are related to MH370”.
A grainy March 18 photo released by China´s State Administration of Science Technology and Industry showed an object measuring 22.5 metres by 13 metres (74 by 43 feet) in the southern Indian Ocean. The location was just 120 kilometres (75 miles) distant from where March 16 satellite images released by Australia had detected two pieces of possible wreckage in the remote ocean about 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth