Australian satellites find possible wreck of missing plane
Kuala Lumpur
(AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Australian Navy and Air Force has diverted ships
and planes towards objects discovered by satellite that could be the wreckage
of the Malaysian airplane missing since March 8.
One
of the objects appears to be at least 24 meters and is located in the Indian
Ocean, about 2500 km south-west of Perth (Australia).
The
Australian and Malaysian authorities have both pointed out that for now any
link between the objects sighted and flight MH370 is only a hypothesis.
The
Malaysian Airlines plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared
from radar. It
was thought at first to have crashed. But
in the following days the Malaysian government announced that the aircraft
radar were tracked for seven more hours after the airplane changed direction,
turning to the west.
Investigators
are studying the backgrounds of the two pilots and passengers to see if there
are possible links with terrorist organizations. But so far have
found nothing.
Malaysian
Transport
Minister
Hishammuddin
Hussein (see
photo) yesterday
said
that
"the
passengers, the pilots and the crew remain innocent until proven otherwise
.
For the sake of their families , -
he
appealed to reporters
at a press conference - I
ask that we refrain from any unnecessary speculation that might make an already
difficult time even harder".
At least 26 countries are taking part in search operations, with aircraft and ships, over a vast area the size of Australia. According to the authorities in Kuala Lumpur, the aircraft may have traveled for seven hours, after having diverted its route along two possible corridors to the north, towards Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, or south of Indonesia towards the Indian Ocean.
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