A Chinese aircraft searching for Malaysia Flight 370 is the latest to see 'suspicious' objects in water

A Chinese aircraft searching for Malaysia Flight 370 is the latest to see &#039;suspicious&#039; objects in water

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last updated 8 January 2015

A Chinese military aircraft searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is now the latest to report seeing something notable in a section of ocean more than 1,000 miles away from the western coast of Australia. China's state-run news agency Xinhua reports that "the crew of a Chinese IL-76 plane spotted some suspicious objects in the southern Indian Ocean on Monday.... From a height of 1,000 meters, there were two quite large objects, and some small, white fragments scattered within a radius of several kilometers." This sighting comes after a French satellite detected debris in the same general area that could possibly be related to the missing airplane. --Catherine Garcia