White object in new satellite shot

Go on board a search plane as it tries to find missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Courtesy: Justin Benson-Cooper

could this be part of Flight MH370 ... The new satellite image of an object in the southern Indian Ocean. Source: Twitter

The Malaysia Transport Minister says the China ambassador has received satellite photos of an object in the Southern Corridor.

MALAYSIAN Authorities have announced that Chinese satellites have captured floating debris in the southern Indian Ocean near where the search is being made for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370..

The debris is about 22.5m by 13 metres wide, Malaysia's Defence and acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

He made the announcement as "breaking news" midway through a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday night.

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Could this be Flight MH370 ... A new image capturesd by a Chinese satellite in the southern Indian Ocean. Source: Twitter

"The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received a satellite image of a floating object in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify," he said

After being handed a piece of paper, Mr Hussein told the media that the Chinese had a "satellite image of floating objects in the southern corridor".

Ships were now on the way to the location.

He said the news had just been given to him as he spoke and had no more details.

Attached coordinates suggested that the image was in roughly the same area of remote ocean as two possible objects spotted on satellite images taken March 16 and released by the Australian government on Thursday.

China's Xinhua news agency said the object was spotted 120 kilometres from those spotted by the Australian satellite.

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Determined to find the object ... Royal Australian Airforce Flying Officer Peter Moore (centre) after returning his RAAF Orion plane to Pearce Air Force base in Bullsbrook, 35 kms north of Perth. Source: AFP

Australian and US spotter planes have been scouring the area for the past three days, but without finding any sign of the suspected wreckage.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority was tonight trying to verify reports of the discovery.

It is not known whether the satellite imagery is in the same area as ones released by AMSA on Thursday, 2300km south west of Perth.

The Chinese Government was expected to release more details late tonight.

The shock announcement came as frustration grew over the lack of progress tracking down the two objects spotted by satellite, with a Malaysian official expressing worry that the search area will have to be widened if no trace of the plane was found.

For three three days search crews have been scouring the area where the satellite took images of objects, about 2,500 kilometers southwest of Perth..

Two military planes from China arrived in Perth to join Australian, New Zealand and US aircraft in the search. Japanese planes will arrive tomorrow and ships were in the area or on their way.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, on an official visit to Papua New Guinea, said weather hampered the search earlier but conditions were improving.

"There are aircraft and vessels from other nations that are joining this particular search because tenuous though it inevitably is, this is nevertheless the first credible evidence of anything that has happened to Flight MH370," Mr Abbott said.

In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters that if the search is unsuccessful, the focus will have to return to two broad arcs where pings from the aircraft, detected by another satellite, may have originated.

Though direct contact with the aircraft was lost early on Saturday, March 8 over the Gulf of Thailand, the pings continued for several hours after that. One arc stretches into central Asia; the other deep in the Indian Ocean.

"My biggest concern is that if we are not able to identify the debris, having to go back to the two corridors is a huge and massive area,'' Hishammuddin said.

The Boeing 777 disappeared with 239 people on board less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.

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