Ships Recover Unidentified Objects in Flight 370 Search

[warrior1]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-28/china-ship-hunts-objects-seen-from-air-as-search-shifts.html

Australian and Chinese ships recovered unidentified objects from the Indian Ocean as planes spotted more items in the search for Malaysian Air Flight 370.

Australia’s HMAS Success and China’s Haixun 01 retrieved “a number of objects from the ocean but so far no objects confirmed to be related” to the missing plane, the Australian Maritime Safety Administration said today in a statement. It was the first time in the search that material has been picked up.

Five ships are on the way to the revised search zone, bringing the total to nine, in the international effort, the Australian agency said. Eight aircraft sighted multiple items today in a search area that covered about 252,000 square kilometers (97,300 square miles).

White, red and orange “suspicious objects” have been seen as the Chinese ship Jinggangshan, carrying two helicopters, joined the Haixun 01 in the search area, the official Xinhua news agency said. Equipment from the U.S. Navy to track the black box recorder has arrived in Perth and will be deployed when needed, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today.


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they must be getting close

[Lint Head]

1. I hope they are and not just picking up trash.

[cojoel]

4. "They called the Enterprise a garbage scow!"

"Sir."

[treestar]

2. It could just be debris

that was already there.

But they do seem certain it went down there, so something eventually should show up.

[jakeXT]

3. The search area is bigger than the UK

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area

[oldandhappy]

5. Might be an interesting way to get the ocean cleaned up.