Off the coast of Australia found the alleged fragments of the missing aircraft

Australia was found off the coast of Australia, which may belong to the missing airliner of Malaysia Airlines. This was stated by Australia Prime Minister Tony Ebbot, BBCreports . The fragments were discovered from the satellite. One of two objects has a 24 meter length.

According to the representative of the Australian Emergency Situations John Yang, it is quite difficult to establish exactly what kind of objects are, since they drift on the surface of the ocean. A plane was sent to the area of ​​detection of these facilities, which are followed by three more, including the American and New Zealand.

Boeing 777-200, which executed the MN370 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared without a trace on March 8. On board were 239 people - 12 crew members and 227 passengers. Of these, 153 citizens of the PRC, 38 Malays, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four Frenchmen, three Americans, two Canadians, New Zealand, Ukrainian and Iranians, one Russian, Dutchman and Taiwanza. Until now, there is no reliable information about the fate of the plane, crew and passengers.

The connection with the airliner was interrupted about an hour after the departure, when he was above the South China Sea in the airspace of Vietnam east of the Malacca Peninsula. The last automatic data transfer from the board MN370 was made at 01:07. After that, it is believed that the transmitter was forcibly disconnected by someone in the pilot cabin.

At 02:15, the plane was seen on the radar of the Malaysian military while flying over the Malacca Strait - in the opposite direction from his planned route. The MN370 contact with a satellite at 08:11 showed that the liner, apparently, continued the flight for at least seven hours after its communication systems were disconnected. 25 countries take part in search of the aircraft.

On March 9, it turned out that several passengers of the aircraft flew according to the sub -submitted documents . There was an assumption of a terrorist attack. However, later investigators found that these were illegal immigrants who tried to get to Europe according to previously stolen passports of EU citizens.