Mystery of MH370 : Hope This Is True for A Hope : Norwegian ship 'reaches area of suspected debris'

OSLO: A Norwegian ship on Thursday reached an area of the Indian Ocean where possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was spotted, shipping company Hoegh Autoliners said.

“The ship has arrived at the site to take part in the search,” said Cecilie  Moe, spokeswoman for the Norwegian company.

 

No object likely to have come from flight MH370 has been recovered at this stage, said Christian Dahll, another spokesperson for Hoegh Autoliners.

 

Dahll added that the search window for Thursday was limited since sunset  was at around 1300 GMT.

 

“The ship will travel along a route provided by Australian authorities  until nightfall,” he told AFP.

 

“After that, we will assess the situation with the Australian authorities.”    

 

Sturla Henriksen, director general of the Norwegian Shipowners’  Association, said that the search area extends over a distance of “60 nautical  miles, around 100 kilometres”.    

 

The St. Petersburg, a vehicles carrier, will travel “back and forth (along  the route) in the hope of finding what has been identified as debris”,  Henriksen told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, adding that the ship does not  have any capacity to retrieve objects from the sea.

 

The vessel was on its way from Port Louis in Mauritius to the Australian  city of Melbourne, when it was requested by the Australian authorities to  reroute in order to identify debris spotted by satellite in the southern Indian  Ocean.

 

After two weeks of false leads, Australia revived the investigation on the  mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 when it announced the detection of two  “objects” in the southern Indian Ocean, some 2,500 kilometres (1,553 miles)  southwest of Perth in western Australia. --   AFP