By Tran Thi Minh Ha, AFP
Boats and aircraft searching for traces of a Malaysian jet that vanished with 239 people on board homed in Monday on a remote Vietnamese island after possible debris was spotted floating nearby.
This picture taken from aboard a Soviet-made AN-26 used by Vietnamese Air Force to look for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, shows an officer (R) and a reporter during search operations over the southern seas off Vietnam on March 9, 2014 Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam, AFP
Two objects were seen from the air late Sunday some 50 miles (80 kilometres) off Tho Chu island, in what Vietnamese authorities said could be a breakthrough sighting of debris from the disappeared jet.
The discovery has helped Vietnamese sea and air teams refine their hunt for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 to a zone near the small island off Vietnam’s southwestern tip.
“All night we mobilised our most modern equipment for the search… but we found no sign of the objects,” Vice Admiral Ngo Van Phat told AFP.
“Two boats left this morning to patrol all maritime zones around Tho Chu Island where we discovered the two objects.”
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