Two Royal Australian Airforce officers searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Searchers yesterday scoured a new area of the Indian Ocean, hoping to salvage possible debris from the doomed jet after several hopeful sightings.
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Ships searching for the missing MH 370 plane have retrieved floating objects from the Indian Ocean, but they were not related to the lost jet, Australian authorities said yesterday.
It was apparently the first time any of the eight ships searching had fished flotsam out of the Indian
Ocean.
Two boats, China’s Haixun 01 and Australia’s HMAS Success, retrieved “a number of objects from the ocean”.
“But so far no objects confirmed to be related to MH 370 have been recovered,” the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement at the end of the day’s searching of a new zone in sub-tropical waters where searchers now suspect the flight ended.
The zone had shifted on Friday more than 1,000km north to a region 1,680km west of Perth.
From the air, planes had seen other objects that could be related to the missing plane, but they have not been physically retrieved yet.
Beijing-bound flight MH 370 disappeared after it took off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8.
Three ships arrived in the new search area yesterday and five more would arrive today, AMSA said, with a ninth to show up in three days’ time.
A device to help locate the flight recorders was on an Australian ship and en route to the search area.
The search was moved after data analysts said the plane was travelling faster than first thought and so would have run out of fuel sooner, meaning any debris would likely be further north.
