showing a possible debris field with more than 100 objects in the Indian Ocean where a missing passenger plane is believed to have crashed, officials said Wednesday according to dpa. The images were taken March 23 by Airbus Defence and Space in France and analysed by the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency, which was "able to identify 122 potential objects" in an area measuring 400 square kilometres, Transport Minister Hishammudin Hussein said. "Some objects were a metre in length and others were as much as 23 metres in length," he said. "Some of the objects appear to be bright, possibly indicating solid material. The objects were located approximately 2,557 kilometres from Perth." Hishammuddin said 12 aircraft scanned the vast southern Indian Ocean the entire day looking for wreckage of the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, which went missing on March 8 after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. An Australian and a Chinese ship were also in the area, while a Japanese coast guard aircraft flew to Perth to join the search operation. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said search planes spotted three objects at the southern Indian Ocean, two of which were likely to be ropes while the third was described as blue in colour. But none of the objects spotted in the 19-day search have been recovered and confirmed to be debris of the Boeing 777-200.
