MH370: Objects 'may have sunk', says Australian DPM

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss on Friday said that the objects spotted on satellite images that is now the focus of a multinational hunt for Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean may have already sunk.

According to Reuters, Truss said that anything which has been floating on the sea for a long time may have slipped to the bottom.

The satellite images were taken on March 16.

Truss said the search continued in treacherous seas in an area some 2,500km south-west of Perth.

He added that Australian, New Zealand and United States aircrafts would be joined by Chinese and Japanese planes over the weekend.

On Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott revealed that authorities had spotted two objects, one measuring around 24 meters and another five meters wide.

Australian and Malaysian authorities were of the opinion that it was ‘credible’ lead of a possible wreckage, raising the hopes of a breakthrough in the search for the Malaysia Airlines, now in its 14th day.

Multiple aircraft and ships have been sent to the area but have turned up nothing so far.

The MH370 plane enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has been missing since March 8, with 239 people on board.