Wednesday, 23 April 2014

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MH370: Debris found on Australia beach investigated in missing Malaysia Airlines jet search


Beach debris investigated in MH370 search
A shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft is seen while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 debris (Picture: AP /Rob Griffith)
Debris found washed up on a beach in western Australia is being investigated to determine if it is wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane.
The objects were found 10km east of Augusta, south of Perth, and handed into a police station, according to Sky News Australia.
Photographs of the debris are being assessed by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), an organisation set up to help co-ordinate the Australian government’s support in the search for the missing Boeing 777.
The images have also been passed on to Malaysian authorities for analysis.
‘Western Australia Police have attended a report of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta and have secured the material,’ said the JACC statement.
A man stands in front of a billboard in support of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as Chinese relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have a meeting at the Metro Park Hotel in Beijing on April 23, 2014. The hunt for physical evidence that the Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the Indian Ocean more than three weeks ago has turned up nothing, despite a massive operation involving seven countries and repeated sightings of suspected debris.. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAOWANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images
A man stands in front of a billboard in support of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 (Picture: AFP / Getty)
‘The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is examining the photographs of the material to determine whether further physical analysis is required and if there is any relevance to the search of missing flight MH370.
‘The ATSB has also provided the photographs to the Malaysian investigation team.
‘No further information is available at this time.’
It comes as Australian prime minister Tony Abbott vowed to keep searching for the plane despite no sign of wreckage after almost seven weeks.
epa04172048 Malaysian Defense Minister and acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein gestures a media conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19 April 2014. Malaysia might widen the search area in the Indian Ocean and use more assets to try to find a passenger jet that went missing six weeks ago, a senior Malaysian official said on 19 April 2014. Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the plan to stop the use of a submersible drone next week in underwater search of Beijing-bound flight MH370, with 239 people on board, will not end the search operations. 'I have to stress that this is not to stop operations but to also consider other approaches which may include widening the scope of the search and utilising other assets that could be relevant in the search operation,' he said in a press briefing. 'The asset deployment committee has identified private companies that have the capabilities for deep-water salvage and recovery work, and other national assets that can be deployed to support this operation,' he added. EPA/AHMAD YUSNI
Malaysian acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein at a MH370 press conference in Kuala Lumpur (Picture: EPA)
He admitted the search strategy may change if seabed scans taken by a US Navy drone failed to turn up a trace of plane, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.
‘We may well re-think the search but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery,’ he said.
‘The only way we can get to the bottom of this is to keep searching the probable impact zone until we find something or until we have searched it as thoroughly as human ingenuity allows at this time.’

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