Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from Chinese Air Force left Malaysia for Australia to join the search for a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean.
Since late last week this hot, dusty suburb on the northern outskirts of Perth, home to the Royal Australian Air Force's Base Pearce, has been transformed into an international media centre as journalists await news from aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
A US P-8 Poseidon aircraft was unable to locate the suspicious objects which a Chinese plane spotted earlier Monday in the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the Australian Maritime Safety Authorities (AMSA) said.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has been informed of the objects sighted by Chinese aircraft and attempts will be made to relocate the objects.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said the latest lead provided by French satellite pointed to a "different location to those released by China and Australia".
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and senior maritime rescue officials reiterated on Sunday that they will keep searching the southern Indian Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH307 for as long as they have hope.
In the incident of the missing flight MH370, Malaysia Airlines has been widely criticized by Chinese netizens for publishing information several times that was later proved false or inaccurate. That might be a misunderstanding of what is said at press conferences.
Malaysia on Sunday received new satellite images from the French authorities showing potential debris along the southern corridor missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might have taken, according to a statement of Malaysian Ministry of Transport.
Planes and ships scrambled Sunday to find a pallet and other debris in a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether the objects were from the Malaysia Airlines jet that has been missing for more than two weeks.
More planes joined the search Sunday of a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone.
There was "increasing hope" of a breakthrough in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner after Chinese satellite images showed what could be debris in the southern Indian Ocean, says Aussie PM.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Saturday China had informed Malaysia and Australia soon after a Chinese satellite spotted a large object possibly related to missing flight MH370.