Hopes Dashed As #MH370 ‘Debris’ Turns Out To Be Rubbish, Literally

Excerpted from The Daily Mail: Three objects retrieved by a Chinese ship in the search for missing flight MH370 are pieces of floating rubbish, it has emerged.

The items were recovered from the Southern Indian Ocean as the operation to locate the Malaysia Airlines jet, which vanished on March 8, entered its fourth week.

Sources said two ships – on Australian and one Chinese – were able to pick up ‘a number of objects’ during today’s search, CBS News reported.

But hopes were dashed when Chinese state media reported the items were nothing more than floating bits of waste.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement: ‘So far no objects confirmed to be related to MH370 have been recovered.’

It comes as Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he refuses to give up hope of finding some of the 239 passengers and crew alive.

He said his country is committed to seeing the investigation through to its final conclusion.

‘I cannot give them (relatives) false hope,’ he said. ‘The best we can do is pray and be sensitive to them, that as long as there is even a remote chance of a survivor, we will pray and do whatever it takes.’ Keep reading

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