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Civilian Plane Sees Wooden Pallet, Small Objects In Ocean Search
A civilian aircraft helping in the
search of a remote corner of the southern Indian Ocean reported seeing a
number of small objects, including a wooden pallet, Australian
officials said.
The objects, which were
spotted with the naked eye, were the only positive result from an
otherwise fruitless search of the inhospitable waters as investigators
look for possible wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
A
Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion aircraft with specialist
observation equipment was diverted to the location of the small objects,
but only reported sighting clumps of seaweed, AMSA said in a statement at 9. a.m. ET Saturday.
The
military aircraft dropped a marker buoy to track the movement of the
material, it said. A merchant ship in the area has been tasked to
relocate and seek to identify the material.
The painstaking air and sea search ended its third day shortly after 6 a.m. ET Saturday – about the same time as Malaysia announced that a Chinese satellite has also spotted possible debris less than 100 miles from the U.S. sighting.
Sea
fog and low cloud made the search effort even more difficult than
usual, according to military crews who arrived back at a base in Perth,
western Australia.
Six aircraft
and two merchant vessels have been involved in scouring a search zone
drawn up after suspected debris was spotted by a U.S. satellite.
U.S., New Zealand and Australian aircraft on site for three days are now being joined by those from China, Japan and India.
Earlier Saturday, Australia's deputy prime minister promised that the search would be "exhaustive" and that the end of the operation was "not in sight" despite the lack of any confirmed sightings of debris.
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