A NORWEGIAN car carrier, Hoegh St. Petersburg, has become the first ship to reach the area where possible debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was spotted The ship arrived at the search zone in the Indian Ocean after it was diverted from its trip from Madagascar to Melbourne. Hoegh Autolines spokesman Ben Stack said the car carrier arrived on the scene at 8pm AEST after a request from Australian authorities. Mr Stack said he could not confirm whether those on board the ship had sighted the objects depicted in the satellite imagery. “They want to help in any way they can and they’re going to do as the Australian authorities ask them to,” he said. Four Australian aircraft covered a 23,000 square kilometre expanse of ocean about 2500km southwest of Perth before air searches were brought to a halt for the day. The search will resume this morning. Authorities should know something definite on the possible discovery of the debris within “two or three days’’, Defence Minister David Johnston said. Australia’s defence forces were doing everything they could in one of the most remote locations in the world, Senator Johnston told AAP in Jakarta where he was attending an international defence dialogue. Earlier, Mr Johnston told Sky News that the operation to find debris will be a “logistical nightmare”. “This is a terribly complex logistical operation to identify what we have found via the satellite,” he said. “We are in a most isolated part of the world, in fact it probably doesn’t get, if I can be so bold, more isolated. “We are doing everything we can to try to solve this potentially tragic mystery.” Source : news.au/world/possible-wreckage-spotted-in-search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-raaf-plane-on-its-way-to-identify-objects/story-fndir2ev-1226859680610
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:36:33 +0000
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