MH370 may be in Bay of Bengal

Beijing (CNN) - Days after authorities dismissed the idea that MH370 may be in the Bay of Bengal, a top Malaysian official said Friday he is considering the theory.

Acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the tip could only be confirmed by sending vessels to the area, which is thousands of kilometers away from the official search area in the southern Indian ocean.

"But I just want to stress that by doing that, we are distracting ourselves from the main search", Hussein said today. "And in the event that the result from the search is negative, who is going to be responsible for that loss of time?"

Hussein did not mention any specific plans to send resources to the Bay of Bengal.

His comments came three days after the Australian company GeoResonance publicized its claim that it may have found the wreckage of a plane in the Bay of Bengal.

While GeoResonance said it's not sure whether the plane is MH370, the company said it has been pressing officials to take a look.

But the chief coordinator of the international search effort said he's convinced the current search area is correct.

"I am confident that the area in the southern (Indian) Ocean is the right search area, and I'm sure that in ... some time, we'll find the aircraft in that area of the Indian Ocean", chief coordinator Angus Houston said Friday.

He said three Bangladeshi naval ships have arrived in the Bay of Bengal to investigate. So far, Houston said, the ships have found nothing.

Houston said the search for the plane, which was carrying 239 people when it disappeared on March 8, may take eight to 12 months.

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