DHAKA: Thailand has spotted 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The Boeing 777 is thought to have crashed on March 8 with the loss of 239 people, after flying thousands of kilometres off course, report the ABC news.
Thailand`s Geo-Informatics Space Technology Development Agency says the objects, ranging from two to 15 metres in size, were scattered over an area about 2,700 kilometres south-west of Perth.
This is within the search area for the plane and is not far from where other satellite images of possible debris have been taken.
"We detected floating objects, perhaps more than 300," Anond Snidvongs, the agency`s executive director, said.
"But we cannot - dare not - confirm they are debris from the plane."
The pictures were taken by Thailand`s only Earth observation satellite on Monday but needed several days to process.
Snidvongs says the information has been given to Malaysia.
Thai satellite image of objects in search for MH370
The objects were spotted about 200 kilometres away from an area where French satellite images earlier showed potential objects in the search for the missing plane.
The French satellite detected more than 100 objects in an area about 2,500km south-west of Perth.
Those objects were in a 400-square-kilometre area and varied in length from one metre to 23 metres.
A Japanese satellite also captured images of 10 objects which could be part of the plane, Kyodo news agency quoted the government as saying on Thursday.
Captain`s son dismisses speculation of intentional crash
Meanwhile, the youngest son of the pilot on the flight has dismissed speculation his father may have crashed the plane intentionally.
Ahmad Seth, son of captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, said he knew what kind of man his father was.
"I`ve read everything online. But I`ve ignored all the speculation. I know my father better," Mr Ahmad, 26, was quoted by the New Straits Times as saying.
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"We may not be close as he travels so much. But I understand him."
Zaharie, 53, along with his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, has come under intense scrutiny after Malaysian authorities said flight MH370`s disappearance on March 8 was due to "deliberate" action by someone on the plane.
Malaysian police have already questioned the family members of the pilots and other crew and seized a home-built flight simulator which Zaharie installed in his house.
But they have not announced finding any evidence against him.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will complete its analysis of data deleted from the flight simulator "within a day or two", its director said on Wednesday in Washington.
FBI chief James Comey did not indicate whether the results of the analysis would be made public.
BDST: 0902 HRS, MAR 28 , 2014
