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Thai satellite images show 300 objects in Malaysia jet search zone

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27-03-2014 | 02:14

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A Thai satellite has detected 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean where an international search is under way for a missing Malaysian jet liner, Thailand's Geo Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISDA) said.

The objects were spotted around 2,700 km (1,680 miles) southwest of Perth by the satellite "Thaichote" on March 24, the GISDA said in a statement.

This comes as a U.S. Navy officer told Reuters that aircraft searches for a Malaysia jetliner presumed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean have been called off for Thursday due to bad weather.

"The forecast in the area was calling for severe icing, severe turbulence and near zero visibility," said Lieutenant Commander Adam Schantz, the officer in charge of the U.S. Navy Poseidon P8 aircraft detachment.

"Anybody who's out there is coming home and all additional sorties from here are cancelled."

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority confirmed flights had been cancelled due to the weather.

In turn, state news agency Xinhua cited China's special envoy Zhang Yesui as saying that China is doing its best to push Malaysia to coordinate the international search effort for a missing Malaysian aircraft, .

Zhang added that China will also continue to intensify its search efforts for the plane, which went missing on March 8 while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

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