China's state news agency reports that a Chinese plane crew spotted some "suspicious objects in the southern Indian Ocean" on Monday while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The crew of the Chinese IL-76 plane saw the objects in an area that had been identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing plane, the Associated Press reports.
The crew relayed the coordinates of the objects to the Australian command center and to a Chinese ship, the icebreaker Xuelong, which is on its way to the location, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
China earlier released a satellite image captured Tuesday depicting an object located about 75 miles south of where an Australian satellite picked up an image of two objects a week ago.
A Xinhua correspondent aboard the IL-76 aircraft reports the crew spotted two large floating objects and several smaller, white objects scattered over several kilometers.
Before heading back to base, the crew asked Australian officials to send other planes to the area, Xinhua reported.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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