Thailand News.Net Thursday 27th March, 2014

Anond Snidvongs, executive director of Thailand's Geo Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, said the Thaichote satellite or Thailand Earth Observation Satellite, recorded the objects in the Indian Ocean at 10 a.m March 24, a day after images from a French satellite detected 122 floating objects, Bangkok daily The Nation reported Thursday.

He also said that the site where the 300 objects were detected was about 2,700 km from Perth, Australia, and about 200 km from the international search area where the ill-fated flight is thought to have come down.

The objects ranged from two to 15 metres in size, he added.

Anond said the images have been handed to Thai caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatara and caretaker Foreign Minister Surapong Tohvichakchaikul would forward the findings to the Malaysian authorities for further investigation if these objects belong to flight MH370.

Thaichote is a remote sensing satellite for natural resources' observation.

Meanwhile, search operations for the lost jet in the southern Indian Ocean were suspended Thursday due to bad weather.

"Today's (Thursday's) search operations have been suspended due to bad weather. All planes are returning to Perth amp; ships are leaving the search area," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) tweeted.

However, it later added: "Ships staying in search area amp; will attempt to continue searching but all planes returning. Bad weather expected for next 24 hours."

Earlier Thursday, the AMSA, which is coordinating the ongoing multinational search operation, said in an update that the search and recovery operations for flight MH370 resumed with six military aircraft, five civil aircraft and five ships in the Australian Search and Rescue Region.

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300 objects spotted bad weather stops jet search