SYDNEY : Sebuah pesawat Tentera Udara Diraja New Zealand berjaya menemui objek terapung di kawasan pencarian serpihan pesawat Malaysia Airlines MH370 yang baru di Lautan Hindi.
Pihak Berkuasa Keselamatan Maritim Australia (AMSA) berkata, ia sedang menunggu imej daripada pesawat Orion itu yang dalam perjalanan pulang ke pangkalan.
Penemuan ini hanya boleh disahkan oleh kapal yang dijangka tiba di kawasan berkenaan esok, kata AMSA di laman Twitternya.
Kawasan pencarian MH370 berubah hari ini kepada 1,100 kilometer ke arah timur laut selepas pihak berkuasa Australia menerima maklumat radar terbaru dari Malaysia.
Zon pencarian terbaru yang terletak 1,850 kilometer di barat Perth dikenal pasti selepas analisis maklumat radar terbaru daripada pakar Boeing yang menyertai pasukan penyiasat antarabangsa di Kuala Lumpur.
Sebanyak sepuluh pesawat dari Australia, China, Jepun, New Zealand, Korea Selatan dan Amerika Syarikat terbabit dalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat di kawasan baru itu hari ini. - Agensi
Kenyataan terbaru akhbar kerajaan Australia :
28th March, 2014: 1115(AEDT)
Search operation for Malaysia Airlines aircraft: Update 25
Five aircraft spotted multiple objects of various colours during Friday’s search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
Search activities have now concluded. A total of 256,000 square kilometres was searched. Photographic imagery of the objects was captured and will be assessed overnight.
The objects cannot be verified or discounted as being from MH370 until they are relocated and recovered by ships.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion reported sighting a number of objects white or light in colour and a fishing buoy.
A Royal Australian Air Force P3 Orion relocated the objects detected by the RNZAF Orion and reported it had seen two blue/grey rectangular objects floating in the ocean.
A second RAAF P3 Orion spotted various objects of various colours in a separate part of the search area about 546 kilometres away.
A total of ten planes were tasked by AMSA in today’s search and all have now departed the search area.
AMSA has tasked Chinese Maritime Administration patrol ship, Haixun 01, which is in the search area and will be in a position to relocate the objects on Saturday.
Friday’s search area was shifted north after international air crash investigators in Malaysia provided the latest credible lead available to AMSA.
This was on the advice of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).
Weather conditions in the area are expected to be reasonable for searching on Saturday.
E: media@amsa.gov.au
