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By THOMAS FULLER and MICHAEL FORSYTHEMARCH 23, 2014 Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyShare This Page EMAIL FACEBOOK TWITTER SAVE MORE Continue reading the main story PEARCE AIR FORCE BASE, Australia — The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet entered its third week on Sunday, as data from a French satellite buttressed the theory that the plane might have fallen into the southern Indian Ocean, far off the west coast of Australia. But the day ended without any possible wreckage being found. Australia and China have already released blurry satellite images of objects floating in the sea, and officials said those might be wreckage from the Boeing 777-200, which disappeared on March 8 after leaving Kuala Lumpur for a routine night flight to Beijing. Now a French satellite has also detected objects in the southern Indian Ocean that might be related to Flight 370, the Malaysian Ministry of Transport said in a statement. Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE Retracing a Lost Flight: A Routine Flight, Till Both Routine and Flight VanishMARCH 22, 2014 Jet’s Disappearance Puzzles a World Under Constant Electronic WatchMARCH 22, 2014 Q. and A. on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370MARCH 11, 2014 News Analysis: The Pilots in the BasementMARCH 22, 2014 France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the possible debris was spotted using satellite-based radar, but gave no other details about the image or the objects’ precise location. The announcement appears likely to reinforce a belief that the plane fell into the ocean far off Western Australia after veering sharply from its planned route. Investigators say they believe military radar and satellite signals indicate the plane cut across mainland Malaysia, headed west over the Indian Ocean and then possibly south toward where Australia has organized a search involving New Zealand and the United States. Britain, China and Japan have also sent military planes and ships to aid the hunt. Continue reading the main story GRAPHIC The Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Maps and diagrams showing how investigators are piecing together the path of the missing plane. OPEN GRAPHIC Flight Lt. Russell Adams, the pilot of an Australian P-3 military aircraft that spent more than 10 hours on Sunday searching for debris, said weather conditions had deteriorated in parts of the search zone. “There was cloud down to the surface,” he told reporters minutes after landing at the base here, which is about 30 miles north of the western Australian city of Perth. The search is focused on an area about 1,550 miles southwest of Perth. On Monday, Australian authorities said 10 aircraft would be involved in the search, including a United States Navy P-8 Poseidon, two Chinese transport aircraft and two Japanese patrol planes, all departing from the Air Force base here. On Saturday, the Chinese government said that one of its satellites had spotted an “unusual object” on Tuesday in an area where Australia had already organized a search. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country’s planes and ships would try to reach the area and look for the whitish object, about 74 feet by 43 feet. It was observed about 65 nautical miles southwest of the spot where, two days earlier, another satellite had captured similar images of floating objects, which the Australian government said might be wreckage from Flight 370. Experts on satellite imagery and open-ocean recovery said the two sightings might be of the same object or objects, and that might give the search teams more information with which to calculate ocean currents and drift speeds, turn back the clock and estimate where the plane might have struck the ocean sometime after 8 a.m. Malaysia time on March 8. There is no evidence that the debris from either Indian Ocean sighting is from the missing airliner. On Saturday, a New Zealand P-3 Orion patrol plane flew over the area and reported sighting only “clumps of seaweed,” the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is overseeing the search, said on Sunday. Early search efforts were plagued by sightings of debris that turned out to be false leads, including a satellite image from the South China Sea released by the same Chinese agency that released the new picture on Saturday. Continue reading the main story The well-equipped pet Sectional sofas: Legos you can sit on Yankees who speak Cantonese Continue reading the main story Advertisement Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia, who was on a trip to Papua New Guinea, said on Sunday that the Chinese images were consistent with the images he announced in Parliament on Thursday. “Obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads and there is increasing hope, no more than hope, that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen,” Mr. Abbott was quoted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as saying. Continue reading the main story Tracking Flight 370 The sequence of events known by the authorities, in local times. Mar. 8, 2014 12:41 a.m. A Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines leaves Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing with 227 passengers, of which two-thirds are Chinese, and a Malaysian crew of 12. “It looks consistent with what the Australian picture shows,” said Sean O’Connor, a former United States Air Force intelligence officer who is a consultant to IHS Jane’s for imagery analysis, after comparing the pictures released by both governments. Currents may have pushed the object to a new location during the intervening period, he said. The coordinates provided with the Chinese satellite images are consistent with the location of the last recorded “ping” that Inmarsat, a satellite communications company, detected from the missing plane, according to a person familiar with the coordinates that Inmarsat submitted to Malaysian investigators. Inmarsat declined to comment. Continue reading the main story RECENT COMMENTS Murphy's Law 23 minutes ago Until some definitive evidence is found, I would love to see some knowledgeable people prepare an analysis of all the theories with facts... Butch Burton 23 minutes ago I sell medical systems that are sometimes shipped by air and on pallets. If those pallets that have been seen are recovered, they are very... Chris 23 minutes ago Okay, so multiple sources have spotted debris.Aren't there any ships located around the debris that find out what it is? Or what about a... SEE ALL COMMENTS WRITE A COMMENT Flight 370 was about 40 minutes into a six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it stopped communicating with air traffic controllers and changed course. On board were 239 people, including two infants. Signals that the plane transmitted to a satellite — the last one at 8:11 a.m., more than seven hours after the jet took off — allowed investigators to say that the plane took one of two broad paths, one south to the current focus of search operations or the other north across the Asian continent. On Saturday, Hishammuddin Hussein, the defense minister of Malaysia, said that seven countries — China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar and Pakistan — had seen nothing to suggest the plane took the north route. “Based on preliminary analysis, there have been no sightings of the aircraft on their radars,” he said at a news conference. CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY 52 COMMENTS More than two dozen countries are on the hunt from land, air, space and sea for any visible sign of the plane. Investigators from law enforcement and aviation safety agencies around the globe have combed through the backgrounds of all the passengers, and so far have revealed no potential suspects. The Malaysian police are investigating the backgrounds of the plane’s pilot and first officer. So far, there is no proof that the plane’s disappearance was caused by human intervention, nor is there any conclusive evidence that it was caused by a mechanical malfunction or an onboard accident, such as an electrical fire. Locating the wreckage of the missing aircraft and, most important, the black box that recorded information about its operations during its final hours, would be crucial to determining what happened on Flight 370, said Simon Bennett, director of the Civil Safety and Security Unit at the University of Leicester in Britain. “In all likelihood, we may never ascertain what happened to MH370, which is a real shame, because then the speculation will simply accelerate and mount up,” he said. “What actually needs to happen is that we need to find the hull, find the flight recorders, and then carefully deconstruct what happened. But in the middle of all that is this blizzard of insane conjecture.”