Hopes dashed in search for flight MH370? 3 objects retrieved from Southern Indian Ocean revealed to be floating rubbish

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Search for missing flight MH370

Three objects retrieved by a Chinese ship in the search for missing flight MH370 are pieces of floating rubbish, it has emerged. Sources said two ships – on Australian and one Chinese – were able to pick up ‘a number of objects’ during today’s mission. However Australian officials who are coordinating efforts in the South Indian Ocean, around 1,150 miles off the coast of Perth, maintain no items linked to the missing passengers jet have been retrieved from the water. It comes after Chinese aircraft, involved in the hunt for missing flight MH370, spotted three items bearing the colours of the missing plane, as the search zone switched 700 miles north east, 1,150 miles off the coast of Perth.

 

Chinese aircraft spotted three new objects floating off the western coast of Australia, as they scoured the new search area today. The items were said to be red, orange and white - similar to the colours of a Malaysia Airlines jet. This picture shows a suspected item of debris highlightedChinese aircraft scouring a new search area in the Indian Ocean spotted three suspicious items, coloured red, white and orange, floating around 1,150 miles off the coast of Perth

Defence Minister Hishamuddin Hussin spent time today visiting family members of those missing on board flight MH370

Defence Minister Hishamuddin Hussin spent time today visiting family members of those missing on board flight MH370