Possible debris from the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found in the sea off Vietnam by a search team, a senior official says.
It is the first time authorities have given any positive indication that traces of the Boeing 777, which disappeared in the early hours of Saturday carrying 239 people, may have been discovered.
"We received information from a Vietnamese plane saying that they found two broken objects, which seem like those of an aircraft, located about 50 miles to the south-west of Tho Chu Island," said the senior from official from the National Committee for Search and Rescue, who did not want to be named.
"As it is night they cannot fish them out for proper identification. They have located the position of the areas and flown back to the land," he added.
Planes and boats would be sent back to the area on Monday to investigate further, he said.
Tho Chu island is part of a small archipelago off the south-western tip of Vietnam which belongs to the communist country.
Two large oil slicks which authorities suspect were caused by jet fuel were detected late on Saturday further south off the island chain.
Images Claim to Show Wreckage of MH370 Surface in Chinese Social Media
Pictures purporting to be the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 are circulating on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
The photographs are said to have been taken by a Chinese passenger who was travelling in a flight from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur operated by the same airlines.
The images show what appears to be debris of the mysterious flight, which remains missing more than 24 hours since it lost all contact. The pictures are said to have taken from a place nearly 90 minutes away by air from the Malaysian capital.
According to the passenger's profile from which the photographs were posted online, he works for the China Minsheng Bank in Beijing.
The banker's post says he took the images from the window when his flight was at an altitude of 11,000 metres at 06:45 on Sunday morning.
It is still unclear whether the Chinese passenger's claim of the area roughly coincides with the spot where the Boeing 777 went missing, reports the South China Morning Post.
There has been no official confirmation of sighting the missing Kuala Lumpur-Beijing aircraft or its wreckage. Jets and ships from several southeast nations continue to scour the South China Sea to trace the plane.
Meanwhile, desperate relatives of the passengers who were aboard the missing aircraft have been urging authorities to trace the passengers using their mobile phones.
Sunday 09 March 2014
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