MH370: New satellite images from French authorities show 'potential objects'

New satellite images from French authorities have shown ‘potential objects’ in the vicinity of the southern corridor.

The Ministry of Transport, in a statement on Sunday, said that Malaysia received the images on Sunday morning.

The images was "immediately relayed" to the Australian rescue co-ordination centre.

Aside from France, Australia and China had previously released satellite images that "show potential objects" that may be related to MH370, in the vicinity of the southern corridor.

For the past six days, the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations were focused on the southern Indian Ocean after the announcement by Australia that suspected debris detected in the area.

The area is located more than 2,000km southwest of Perth, where another image was also detected by Chinese satellites on Saturday.

On Sunday, a number of aircrafts scheduled to join the mission at the southern corridor were cancelled due to bad weather caused by tropical cyclone Gillian.

Other updates on the operations include:

• Two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s have arrived in Perth, and will depart for the search and rescue operation tomorrow at 05:00 and 06:00.- Two Japanese P3 Orions today left Subang airport for Perth.

• The Australian rescue co-ordination centre will deploy eight aircraft (four military and four civilian) to the southern corridor today, to conduct visual searching.

• The Australian Defence Vessel ‘Ocean Shield’, which has a sub-sea remotely operated vehicle, is currently en route to the southern corridor.

• As of 2:30pm Malaysia time, Australian officials have informed us that they have not made any new sightings regarding MH370. -- this is 5.30pm, EADT

• One Indian Navy P8 Poseidon and one Indian Air Force C130 left Subang airport today to join the search and rescue operation in the northern part of the southern corridor, which is being led by Indonesia.