MH370: 'They seem fairly confident it could potentially be a plane' - ABC News reporter

Australian authorities seem ‘fairly confident’ that the satellite images which revealed at least two objects in the southern Indian Ocean were more potentially a plane than any other debris.

This according to ABC News journalist Nikki Battiste, now based in Australia, who spoke to Astro AWANI earlier this morning.

“I suspect this information (of the two objects) has been completed yesterday and some of the search efforts were reorganized overnight...they are fairly confident that it could potentially be a plane, rather than any sort of debris,” Battiste said.

Battiste said sophisticated technology was believed to be used to analyse the satellite data to come to the conclusion, now becoming the biggest lead so far in the search for Flight MH370.

She also believe that the world-wide focus now seems to be moving towards the latest ‘new and credible’ leads, in the words of the Australian prime minister Tony Abbott.

Battiste said that she understands that the US NAVY P-8A Poseidon is now scouring a 30,000 nautical mile wide area in waters with a depth of some 14,000 feet.

Earlier, Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) spokesman John Young confirmed that one of the two objects was 24 meters wide.

Object 1

This, according to aviation analysts, is considered quite a large object that aviation analysts say are rarely found at sea.

“So the imagery is being progressively captured by satellites passing over various areas. The task of analysing imagery is quite difficult, it requires drawing down frames and going through frame by frame.

“The moment that this imagery was discovered to reveal a possible object that might indicate a debris field, we have passed the information from Defence across to AMSA for their action,” Young said.