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Missing plane: Potential aircraft wreckage spotted in Indian Ocean says Oz PM

Two objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people have been spotted in the southern Indian Ocean.

Disclosing this Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament today that he has called his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak to relay the new and credible information about potential aircraft wreckage.

He said, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received the information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search. Following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified.

The Australian newspaper quoting Prime Minister Abbott reports, a Royal Australian Air Force Orion has been diverted in an attempt to locate the objects. He said, three more aircraft will follow this Orion. They are tasked for more intensive follow up search.The Prime Minister did not specify where the objects were found.

Five Indians and a Canadian of Indian-origin were among the 239 people on board the flight MH370 when it disappeared over the South China Sea an hour after taking off from Kuala
Lumpur for Beijing on March 8.
Meanwhile, in an interview to a local news channel from Dallas, United States President Barack Obama said, America has made every available resource to find the missing Malaysian flight, including the FBI.

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