Flight MH370 assumed lost in south Indian Ocean

(Vatican Radio) Malaysia’s prime minister has announced that the latest investigations into missing Flight MH370 shows that the airline has most probably been lost in the Southern Indian Ocean.

New satellite analysis from Britain shows that the Boeing 777, with 239 people on board, was last seen in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth, Australia.

Prime Minister Najib Razak made the announcement during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur Monday night, saying that the location of the citing was remote, and far from any possible landing sites.

“We wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity,” he told journalists. “We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families.”

Razak’s comments came as an Australian navy ship was close to finding possible debris from the jetliner after a mounting number of sightings of floating objects that are believed to parts of the plane.

Earlier on Monday Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament that three planes were en route to investigate the objects which he described as a "grey or green circular object" and an "orange rectangular object".

Abbott said it could not be confirmed whether the objects belong to the missing airplane, but expressed his commitment to doing whatever was possible to provide answers about what happened.


“We owe it to the families of those on board, we owe it to the loved ones of those on board, we owe it to all the people concerned about the fate of this aircraft,” he said, “to do whatever we reasonably can to find anything that is out there, to test it, and to see what we can learn.”


Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing on March 8.


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