Flight MH370: China ship searching for objects in new area

The vessel has been at the scene trying to retrieve the items since first light, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) says. Aircraft are also travelling to the new search area, about 1,100km (700 miles) north-east of the previous zone, BBC News reports. The Beijing-bound airliner disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board. Five search planes spotted multiple objects of various colours on Friday. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion first spotted "a number of objects white or light in colour and a fishing buoy", Amsa said. An Australian plane then went to relocate the items and spotted "two blue/grey rectangular objects", and three other planes reported similar sightings. Investigators will not know whether the objects are connected to the missing plane until they have been recovered by ships, The Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 was deployed to locate the objects early on Saturday, and eight aircraft would also be taking part in the day's operation, Amsa said. Bad weather has hampered the search efforts in recent days. Saturday's conditions are expected to be favourable initially but to deteriorate later in the day. Burning more fuel The Australian and Malaysian governments said on Friday the search area had been changed following further analysis of radar data that showed the plane had been travelling faster, thus burning more fuel. This would reduce the possible distance the aircraft travelled south into the Indian Ocean, officials said. Search efforts had until Friday morning focused on an area some 2,500km (1,550 miles) to the south-west of the Australian city of Perth. Detaisl also at