A Chinese plane hunting for wreckage of a missing Malaysian passenger jet spotted unidentified "objects" Monday in an area of the southern Indian Ocean determined to be the most likely location for debris from flight MH370, dpa reported. Ten aircraft are patrolling a 59,000-square-kilometre patch of sea between Australia and Antarctica. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, coordinating the search, said the "reported objects are within today's search area and attempts will be made to relocate them." The search area is 2,500 kilometres south-west of Perth, where computer modelling showed the Boeing 777-200 would have gone down if it had continued flying southward until it ran out of fuel. China's Xinhua news agency, citing a reporter on board the Chinese Ilyushin-76, reported "two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometres." It said the objects were "white and square" and that the coordinates had been given to the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which changed course to investigate.
