Probe into 'plane found in Bay of Bengal' report

The technical committee on the search for MH370 will look into a report that an exploration firm found materials consistent with a Boeing 777 in the Bay of Bengal, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

"I will not comment on it until there is confirmation... in (the) past there were oil slicks, satellite images of wreckage in the South China Sea, but proved to be untrue.

“I'm meeting with the technical committee in a while... if they say we proceed with the lead, then we will,” Hishammuddin was reported as saying byThe Malay Mail.

Yesterday, 7News Australia reported that Australian exploration firm GeoResonance as saying it found material consistent with the plane in the Bay of Bengal.

The firm's checks of its own records show that items were not there prior to the plane's disappearance on March 8.

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