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#马航飞机失联#【澳大利亚：发现疑似失联飞机残骸】澳大利亚ABC发布突发新闻，称一架澳飞机发现疑似失联飞机残骸，另外三架飞机将飞往该地区，澳总理已就此向马方通报，澳大利亚海事局将在北京时间12：30举行新闻发布会。
澳大利亚总理：上述两个物体是通过卫星图像发现的。预计对可疑物出现区域的搜索将很快进行。
当地时间3月18日，澳大利亚皇家空军在马来西亚半岛以西海域搜寻马航失联航班。
【澳大利亚：发现疑似失联飞机残骸】澳大利亚ABC发布突发新闻，称一架澳飞机发现疑似失联飞机残骸，另外三架飞机将飞往该地区(南印度洋)，澳总理已就此向马方通报，澳大利亚海事局将在北京时间12：30举行新闻发布会。
另据中新网报道：
中新网3月20日电 据法新社20日报道，澳大利亚总理阿伯特称，观测到两个疑似与失联的MH370客机有关的物体。
据媒体此前报道，澳大利亚应马来西亚方面的请求，负责协调在南印度洋海域搜索马航失联客机。从18日上午，澳大利亚的飞机在珀斯西南3000公里以外海域进行搜索。
19日报道指出，来自美国国家运输安全委员会及英国航空机构的数据表明，失联客机没有足够的燃油飞到南部走廊的最远端。澳大利亚根据这一信息将搜索区范围缩小一半。
报道指出，尽管如此，其搜索区仍覆盖了89000平方海里(合31万平方公里)的偏远海域。
美军先进巡逻机抵达澳大利亚 在南印度洋搜寻
据新华网报道，美国海军第七舰队19日证实，海军一架P-8A“海神”巡逻机已抵达澳大利亚珀斯，在印度洋南部搜寻马航失联客机。
CNN: Malaysia Airlines Flight
370: Australia says possible objects in Indian Ocean
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Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 23:24 p.m. Wednesday ]
Australian
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that authorities have spotted two
objects in the Indian Ocean that are possibly related to the missing Malaysia
Airlines Flight 370.
The
reports say the objects were found in the southern Indian Ocean and a Royal
Australian Air Force plane is attempting closer inspection.
Australian
search teams have been at the forefront of search efforts in the remote
southern Indian Ocean.
[Last
update posted at 20:02 p.m. Wednesday]
Missing
flight simulator data probed in Flight 370 disappearance
(CNN)
-- Investigators looking at the flight simulator taken from the home of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah have discovered that some
data had been deleted from it, Malaysiap~ps acting transportation minister said
Wednesday.
What
the revelation means is unclear. It could be another dead end in an
investigation that has been full of them so far, or it could provide further
evidence for the theory that one or more of the flight crew may have been
involved in the planep~ps disappearance 12 days ago.
"It
may not tell us anything. It's a step in the process," one U.S. law
enforcement source told CNN. "It could be a very insignificant detail in
the process."
Investigators
have been looking into the background of all 239 passengers and crew members
aboard the plane that vanished in the early morning hours of March 8 while en
route from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China.
Particular
attention has focused on the pilot and first officer on Flight 370, but
authorities have yet to come up with any evidence explaining why either of them
would have taken the jetliner off course.
Acting
Transportation Secretary Hishammuddin Hussein didn't say what had been
deleted, but simulation programs can store data from previous sessions for
later playback. He also did not say who might have deleted the data.
FBI
examination
Specialists
are examining the simulator in hopes of recovering the data that was deleted,
Hishammuddin said.
Among
them are experts at the FBIp~ps forensics lab in Quantico, Virginia, who are
examining a copy of the simulatorp~ps hard drive, as well as a copy of the hard
drive from the computer of co-pilot Fariq Ab Hamid, law enforcement sources
told CNN.
The
FBI examination of the computer drives involves sorting through a large volume
of data, according to a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the
investigation.
"It
is going to take some period of time, but we are analyzing it with a great
degree of urgency. It is prioritized right at the top because the world is
trying to figure this out," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Deleted
files from Shah's simulator could reveal it had been used to practice
diverting the plane and flying it to an unfamiliar airport, experts said. But
even if investigators retrieve past simulations showing that Zaharie practiced
flying to seemingly odd locations, that doesn't necessarily indicate evidence
of anything nefarious, said Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former
inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
"You
put in strange airports and try to land there, just to see if you can do
it," said Schiavo, adding that she sometimes does just that on the flight
simulation program on her home computer.
'Grasping
at straws
President
Barack Obama called the search for Flight 370 "a top priority,"
telling KDFW of Dallas on Wednesday that the United States will keep working on
it.
"We
have put every resource that we have available at the disposal of the search
process," he said.
But
beyond help with the computer drives, the Malaysian government has not put in a
formal request for additional FBI help overseas, according to the senior U.S.
official.
"We
have made it clear we are ready to provide help whenever they need it,"
the official said. "We are grasping at straws. No one is running on
anything white hot."
More
than 60 ships and 50 aircraft are participating in the search. But at least two
aircraft, a Japanese search plane and a U.S. Navy P-3 Orion, sat on a runway at
a Subang air base this week after Indonesia refused to allow the planes to fly
through its airspace.
"From
what I understand, this is an international operation," Cmdr. William
Marks, spokesman for the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, told CNN by telephone.
"...I'm confident we're going to be flying today or very soon."
Later,
Indonesia's military spokesman told CNN clearance was given to all search
planes.
Although
the search area spans nearly 3 million square miles, a U.S. government official
familiar with the investigation said the missing plane is most likely somewhere
in the southern Indian Ocean.
"This
is an area out of normal shipping lanes, out of any commercial flight patterns,
with few fishing boats, and there are no islands," the official said,
warning that the search could well last "weeks and not days."
Angry
families want answers
The
lack of progress has angered and frustrated families, who have accused Malaysian
officials of withholding information.
Some
family members staged a protest at the Kuala Lumpur hotel where media covering
the search are staying. Their efforts were cut short by security guards who
removed them through a crush of reporters, dragging one as she screamed.
"I
don't care what your government does," one woman shouted, referring to
the Malaysians. "I just want my son back."
The
agony of the wait is also being felt by families in Beijing, the scheduled
destination for Flight 370. They gather daily for a briefing with officials.
Ye
Lun, whose brother-in-law is on the missing plane, says every day is the same.
He and his group leave the hotel in the morning for a daily briefing, and
that's it. They go back to the hotel to watch the news on television.
In
a statement, Hishammuddin said Malaysian authorities "regret the scenes at
this afternoon's press conference."
"One
can only imagine the anguish they are going through," he said of the
families. "Malaysia is doing everything in its power to find MH370 and
hopefully bring some degree of closure for those whose family members are
missing."
An
abrupt change in direction
The
disappearance continues to intrigue the public and frustrate officials, who
have turned up no sign of the plane despite the involvement of teams from 26
nations.
On
Tuesday, a law enforcement official told CNN that the aircraftp~ps first major
change of course -- an abrupt westward turn that took the plane off its route
to China and back across the Malay Peninsula -- was almost certainly programmed
by somebody in the cockpit.
The
change was entered into the plane's system at least 12 minutes before a
person in the cockpit, believed to be the co-pilot, signed off to air traffic
controllers. Two minutes after the signoff, the plane's transponder stopped
communicating details about the plane's altitude, speed and heading.
Some
experts said the change in direction could have been part of an alternate
flight plan programmed in advance in case of emergency; others suggested it could
show something more nefarious was afoot.
But
Hishammuddin said Wednesday that "there is no additional waypoint on
MH370's documented flight plan, which depicts normal routing all the way to
Beijing."
The
Thai military, meanwhile, said it had spotted the plane turning west toward the
Strait of Malacca early on March 8. That supports the analysis of Malaysian
military radar that has the plane flying out over the Strait of Malacca and
into the Indian Ocean.
But
it didn't make it any clearer where the plane went next. Authorities say
information from satellites suggests the plane kept flying for about six hours
after it was last detected by Malaysian military radar.
Malaysian
authorities, who are coordinating the search, say the available evidence suggests
the missing plane flew off course in a deliberate act by someone who knew what
they were doing.
Background
checks
Investigators
are looking into the background of all the passengers and crew members on board
the plane, as well as its ground crew, Malaysian officials have said. They've
received background checks for all passengers on board, with the exception of
those from Russia and Ukraine, Hishammuddin said.
So
far, no information of significance has been found about any passengers,
Hishammuddin said.
China
says it has found nothing suspicious during background checks on its citizens
on the flight -- a large majority of the plane's passengers.
And
some experts have warned against hastily jumping to conclusions about the role
of the pilots.
"I've
worked on many cases were the pilots were suspect, and it turned out to be a
mechanical and horrible problem," said Schiavo. "And I have a saying
myself: Sometimes, an erratic flight path is heroism, not terrorism."
Why
were there no phone calls?
Ticking
clock
Searchers
are racing the clock in their efforts to find the plane and its flight-data and
cockpit-voice recorders. The devices have batteries designed to send out pings
for 30 days. That leaves 18 days until the batteries are expected to run out.
The
task is being complicated by the scope of the search area, as well as the depth
of some of the waters being searched -- up to 23,000 feet (7,000 meters).
Searchers
trying to find and retrieve wreckage and bodies from Air France Flight 447,
which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, had to use unmanned submarines.
It
took nearly two years to find the bulk of the wreckage, including the flight
data recorders, in waters nearly 12,000 feet deep. It took even longer to
determine what happened to the plane.
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