Missing MH370: Chinese search plane spots 'white and square' objects


Two Chinese Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft are pictured at the RAAF base Pearce in Bullsbrook, near Perth. - Reuters file photo

BEIJING:  A Chinese aircrew has spotted "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean in the search for vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. 

Searchers discovered "two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometres", Xinhua said, citing a reporter on board a Chinese Ilyushin-76 plane. 

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