Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot spoke to Parliament on Thursday saying a search team had been sent off the country’s coast to investigate new evidence found on satellite imagery concerning Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
According to CNN, Abbot believes that this new evidence is “credible,” but stressed that it would take time to pinpoint the exact location.
There have been a wide variety of theories concerning the disappearance and location of the plane, but there had been no major developments in the past few days.
Experts have said that if the plane did crash in the ocean, buoyant items such as seat cushions could remain on the surface for an extended period of time.
Here is where they believe the floating objects related to flight 370 are:
Here is the full statement by the Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot:
“The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information, based on satellite imagery, of objects possibly related to the search,” the prime minister said.
“Following specialist analysis of the this satellite imagery two possible objects related to the search have been identified.”
“I can inform the House that a RAAF Orion has been diverted to attempt to locate the objects. This Orion is expected to arrive in the area at about this time.”
“Three more aircraft will follow this Orion. They are tasked for a more intensive follow-up search.”
“I have spoken to my Malaysian counterpart Prime Minister Najib Razik, and informed him of these developments.”
“I must inform the house the task of locating these objects will be extremely difficult and it may turn out that they are not related to the search for Flight MH 370.”
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