BREAKING: China has spotted three pieces of possible debris from missing Malaysian Air flight MH370. All are at least 40 feet long. The argest is 79 feet by 72 feet.
@PzFeed @ajam Well how big is the plane..
— M@ (@ASlothOnASegway) March 12, 2014
Chinese satellite observed a “suspected crash area at sea.”
The pieces were seen south of Vietnam.
CNN reported:
A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “observed a suspected crash area at sea,” a Chinese government agency said — a potentially pivotal lead into what has been a frustrating search for the Boeing 777.
China’s State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense announced the discovery, including images of what it said were “three suspected floating objects and their sizes.” The objects aren’t small at 13 by 18 meters (43 by 59 feet), 14 by 19 meters and 24 by 22 meters.
The images were captured on March 9 — which was the day after the plane went missing — but weren’t released until Wednesday.
The Chinese agency gave coordinates of 105.63 east longitude, 6.7 north latitude, which would put it in waters northeast of where it took off in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and south of Vietnam.