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.
The pallet was spotted by a search plane Saturday, but has not been closely examined. Wooden pallets are commonly used in shipping, but can also be used in cargo containers carried on planes.
It was the latest in a series of clues experts and searchers are trying to run down to solve the mystery of what happened to Flight 370 when it disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
Mike Barton, chief of Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s ‘s rescue coordination center, told reporters in Canberra, Australia, that the wooden pallet was spotted by a civilian search aircraft on Saturday , and it was surrounded by several other objects including what appeared to be strapping belts of different colors.
