Several "probably man-made" objects were floating near the suspected crash site of MH370 just weeks after it vanished Cheap Hydro Flask Lids , Australian researchers revealed Wednesday, more than six months after the hunt for the doomed jet was called off.
A massive underwater search for the Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, ended in January after no trace of the aircraft was found in a 120,000 square kilometre (46 Cheap Hydro Flask Coffee Mug ,000 square mile) zone in the remote southern Indian Ocean off Australia's west coast.
But expert research in April and December suggested that MH370 was most likely lying north of that zone, identifying an area of approximately 25,000 square kilometres with the highest probability of containing the wreckage.
On Wednesday, two new studies said photos taken by French military satellites two weeks after the plane's disappearance, but not released to the public Cheap Hydro Flask 18 OZ , showed at least 70 identifiable objects floating close to the so-called "northern area".
Released by Australia's national science body CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, the reports said 12 of the objects were "probably man made".
A massive underwater search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, ended in January (AFP PhotoHandout)
The CSIRO used drift analysis to study where the objects may have been on the day the aircraft went missing, and found their projected location to be consistent with the northern area identified in the earlier reports.
But the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Cheap Hydro Flask 21 OZ , which led the search mission, cautioned about drawing conclusions about the source of the objects.
"The image resolution is not high enough to be certain whether the objects originated from MH370 or are other objects that might be found floating in oceans around the world," ATSB's chief commissioner Greg Hood said.
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