News: Ships Recover Unidentified Objects in Flight 370 Search

Australian and Chinese ships recovered unidentified objects from the Indian Ocean as the search for Malaysian Air Flight 370 enters its fourth week.
Australia’s HMAS Success and China’s Haixun 01 retrieved “a number of objects from the ocean but so far no objects confirmed to be related” to the missing plane, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement yesterday.
It was the first time in the search that material had been picked up. The U.K.’s Daily Mail cited Chinese state media as saying that three objects turned out to be pieces of rubbish.
Six ships are on the way to the revised search zone, bringing the total to 10 in the international effort, the Australian agency said in a morning update. In addition, the HMAS Toowoomba frigate left Perth last night and should arrive to the search area in about three days, it said. Eight aircraft sighted multiple items yesterday in a search area that covered about 252,000 square kilometers (97,300 square miles), while 10 planes will be involved in today’s search.
White, red and orange “suspicious objects” had been seen as the Chinese ship Jinggangshan, carrying two helicopters, joined the Haixun 01 in the search area, the official Xinhua news agency said. Equipment from the U.S. Navy to track the plane’s black box recorder has arrived in Perth and will be deployed when needed, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday.