A suspicious object spotted by a Chinese satellite was floating 120km (72 miles) from possible debris announced by Australia in the search for a missing Malaysian jet, the official Xinhua news agency said today Saturday March 2014.
"The location of the suspicious object is along the southern corridor missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might have taken," it said, adding the object was spotted on March 18, two days after the satellite image announced by Australia.Two weeks after a Malaysian airliner carrying 239 people vanished, international teams stepped up their search deep in the southern Indian Ocean on Saturday, as a Malaysian minister expressed fear a possible sighting of debris may be another false lead.
Six aircraft and two merchant ships were scouring an area of the remote southern Indian Ocean where suspected debris was spotted by satellite six days ago.
The international team hunting Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean failed to turn up anything on Friday, and Australia's deputy prime minister said the suspected debris may have sunk.
Malaysia on Friday asked the United States to provide undersea surveillance technology to help in the search for the wreckage of a missing airliner, Pentagon officials said.
The request came as a near two-week search failed to find any debris from the Boeing 777 that disappeared off the radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8.
In a phone call to Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, Malaysia's defense minister and acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein "requested that the US consider providing some undersea surveillance equipment," Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said.
Hagel assured his counterpart that he would "assess the availability and utility of military undersea technology for such a task and provide him an update in the very near future," Kirby said in a statement.
Officials did not say precisely what equipment the Pentagon might provide but the US military has invested heavily in robotic technology designed for undersea surveillance against enemy submarines or torpedoes.
The Malaysian minister thanked Hagel for the US Navy's assistance in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew in an unprecedented aviation mystery.
Two US Navy maritime surveillance planes, a P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon, have been taking part in the search.
The P-8 has flown with Australian aircraft in a search of the southern Indian Ocean, while the P-3 --- which had been combing an area in the Bay of Bengal -- is due to join the search in the southern zone, officials said.
A search effort on Friday of a remote stretch of Indian Ocean concluded "without any sightings," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement.
"The location of the suspicious object is along the southern corridor missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might have taken," it said, adding the object was spotted on March 18, two days after the satellite image announced by Australia.Two weeks after a Malaysian airliner carrying 239 people vanished, international teams stepped up their search deep in the southern Indian Ocean on Saturday, as a Malaysian minister expressed fear a possible sighting of debris may be another false lead.
Six aircraft and two merchant ships were scouring an area of the remote southern Indian Ocean where suspected debris was spotted by satellite six days ago.
The international team hunting Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean failed to turn up anything on Friday, and Australia's deputy prime minister said the suspected debris may have sunk.
Malaysia on Friday asked the United States to provide undersea surveillance technology to help in the search for the wreckage of a missing airliner, Pentagon officials said.
The request came as a near two-week search failed to find any debris from the Boeing 777 that disappeared off the radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8.
In a phone call to Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, Malaysia's defense minister and acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein "requested that the US consider providing some undersea surveillance equipment," Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said.
Hagel assured his counterpart that he would "assess the availability and utility of military undersea technology for such a task and provide him an update in the very near future," Kirby said in a statement.
Officials did not say precisely what equipment the Pentagon might provide but the US military has invested heavily in robotic technology designed for undersea surveillance against enemy submarines or torpedoes.
The Malaysian minister thanked Hagel for the US Navy's assistance in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew in an unprecedented aviation mystery.
Two US Navy maritime surveillance planes, a P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon, have been taking part in the search.
The P-8 has flown with Australian aircraft in a search of the southern Indian Ocean, while the P-3 --- which had been combing an area in the Bay of Bengal -- is due to join the search in the southern zone, officials said.
A search effort on Friday of a remote stretch of Indian Ocean concluded "without any sightings," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement.
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