Japan satellite images show possible debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Tokyo: Japanese satellite images have shown around 10 floating objects off Australia, possibly from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, media reports quoted the government as saying on Friday.

The objects were spotted in waters roughly 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth, Kyodo and Jiji news agencies said.


Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Centre's study showed objects up to eight metres in length and four metres wide in images captured by a satellite between 9 am and 3 pm (local time) Wednesday, Kyodo said.

A government source said they could be wreckage of the missing plane since they were found in an area overlapping the sites where debris had previously been spotted, according to the agency.

Jiji quoted a government official as saying the floating objects were "highly likely" to be part of the plane.

Japan had handed the information to Malaysia, the reports said.

Malaysia jet search: As it happened on Wednesday

The search mission for the ill-fated Flight MH370 is being touted as the "the most complex, the most difficult in aviation history".

An aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas, publisher of airlineratings.com, has described the search for MH370 as most challenging ever, reports the AP.

"The weather in this part of the world is far more difficult than that experienced in the search for [Air France flight] 447," AP quoted him as saying.

08:00 pm: China tells Malaysia to provide evidence of crash

China's special envoy to Malaysia, Zhang Yesui, has asked China to strengthen information sharing and provide evidence of announced crash, CCTV news reported. Many questions are being raised on Malaysian PM's announcement of plane having ended in Southern Indian Ocean without having any plausible proof.

07:40 pm: Multi-million dollar lawsuit filed on Malaysia Airlines

Already staring at bankruptcy in wake of MH370 crisis, Malaysia Airlines seems for a fiercer financial trouble as an American law firm filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit on the airline.

The lawsuit was filed by Chicago-based Ribbeck Law Chartered yesterday in a court in Illinois on behalf of Januari Siregar, whose father was aboard Flight MH370, reports the PTI.

05:45 pm: We did a tremendous job: Malaysian minister

Denying that Malaysian handling of jet probe was meted out a "bruising" treatment from the international media, Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said,“To say bruising is a bit harsh because as I said it before this is unprecedented. Anybody that has gone through what we have gone through in these 17 days have indicated to me that we have a done a tremendous job."

05:00 pm: AMSA says finds three different objects

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said three objects have been spotted in search for MH370. AMSA news tweeted that civilian aircraft spotted objects which were likely ropes. And a New Zealand's Orion aircraft saw a blue coloured object.