In Jetliner Hunt, Australian Team Spots More Objects

The crew reported the coordinates to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority which later said via Twitter that "attempts will be made" to search the area.

A Xinhua correspondent aboard the aircraft said the searchers saw two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered over a radius of several km.

He added that as the two Chinese planes were heading back, the crew asked the Australians to send in other planes to the area for further examination.

The airborne searchers also relayed the information to Chinese icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, which had left Perth on Friday on the search mission. The vessel is expected to arrive in the area.

AMSA, in an earlier update, while reiterating it was a "challenging search operation", said in a statement: "AMSA is using all satellite imagery and information available in its search area development."

Civil aircraft engaged by AMSA and military aircraft from Australia, New Zealand, the US, China and Japan were all assisting in the ongoing search operation to provide the best chance of locating objects captured by satellite imagery with the naked eye, it said.

It said it has tasked 10 aircraft Monday to search for possible objects in the search that has been split into two areas within the same proximity, covering a cumulative 68,500 sq km.

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