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Malaysia airliner debris possibly spotted, Australia says


BEIJING -- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that two objects that could be wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had been seen by satellite off the western coast of Australia.


'New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search ... in the south Indian Ocean,' Abbott told Australia's Parliament in Canberra on Thursday morning.


'The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of two objects possibly related to the search,'' he said.


Abbott was to give a news conference at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday Pacific time.


The flight disappeared March 8en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. An international search operation has been focusing on two possible corridors: one heading northwest toward Turkmenistan and the other south toward Australia.


Although Abbott called the information 'credible,'' he cautioned in his statement that 'the task of locating these objects will be extremely difficult and it may turn out that they are not related to the search for Flight MH370.''


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