Plane debris located

Malaysia’s acting transport minister calls it the “most credible” lead authorities have about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. French satellite imagery has found more than one hundred and 20 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean, but no physical remains of the aircraft have been recovered, so far.

More clues from space. The satellite images represent the most significant lead thus far.

A French satellite photographed 122 objects on Sunday. Most of them small, but one was 75-feet long. That’s the largest number of objects to be photographed so far, and they were all in a fairly small area — 480 square kilometres.

Hishammuddin Hussein is Malaysia’s Acting Transport Minister: “It is not very far from the objects sighted by the Chinese government which is over here, and the Australian government which is over there. So this is still the most credible lead that we have.”

Wednesday, there was a record deployment out searching — 12 aircraft, and five ships covering a vast area the size of Alaska. But no objects have been found.

On Monday, Malaysia’s prime minister had announced the plane had crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, based on its final sattelilte signals.

The plane has officially been missing 18 days, and its black boxes could stop sending signals within two weeks.