The search mission for the debris of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may experience a breakthrough after discovery of an "object of interest" was announced on April 23, 2014, Wednesday.
The Australian authorities, however, warned it was too early to tell if it was a real lead and the object belonged to the missing Malaysian Boeing.
The recovered fragment was described as appearing to be sheet metal with rivets. The place of its recovery is near Augusta, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Perth. SEE the map below:
The item is currently being studied by the Australian police and security agencies, so it’s too early to make any conclusions.
A source of CNN in the Australian Defence Force described the object as having rivets on one side with what appears to be a fiberglass coating. The shape of was described as "kind of rectangular," but torn and disfigured.
The authorities of Malaysia stated they had not received any images of Wednesday’s discovery yet.
Meanwhile an unmanned mini submarine Bluefin-21 has completed scanning of 80% of the assigned territory. It has finished its 10th dive earlier due to bad weather conditions. The strategy for the search remains the same. Underwater search will resume after the storm would be over.
The MH370 flight with 239 people on board remains missing for 47 days so far. It disappeared from radars on March 8, 2013. There is no suggestion the hunt in the Southern Indian Ocean is anywhere close to ending, as finding the flight data recorders from the jetliner is the key to resolving its mysterious disappearance.
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