Has missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 been found? There's a good chance as a satellite scanning the Indian Ocean found a debris field containing 122 objects. A top Malaysian official says the recent find is "the most credible lead that we have."
Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein made the announcement about the objects and said that they're more than 1,550 miles southwest of Australia, around the same area where previous objects were detected. Some of the objects were measured to be about 75 feet long, the Associated Press reports.
According to Hishammuddin, the latest satellite images were taken on Sunday by French-based Airbus Defence and Space.
This isn't the first time debris was found, but this is the highest amount of debris that has been spotted so far. Various floating objects have been spotted around the same area over the past week. The search aircraft and boats fund two or three objects at a time. However none of the object were seen a second time, so it is not clear if those objects were directly related to the crash or if they came from somewhere else.
However Hishammuddin feels more confident about the recent debris that was spotted. Officials said that Flight 370, which went missing with 239 people on board on March 8, crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean and there are likely no survivors.
"If it is confirmed to be MH370, at least we can then we can move on to the next phase of deep sea survelliance search," Hishammuddin said.
A mass search started on Wednesday which includes 12 planes and five ships rom the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. The search picked up after it was held off on Tuesday due to poor weather and high waves. The current search zone is quite large as it contains 622,000 square miles, which is the size of Alaska.
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