Possible Malaysian plane wreckage debris washed ashore

An ‘object of interest’, as officials named it, was washed ashore on the Australian southwestern coastline, on Wednesday.

Although officials are playing the cautious card after a string of errors in the search mission they are leading, they will not, however, pass the chance to investigate something that might lead to a breakthrough in the search of the missing airplane.

‘It's sufficiently interesting for us to take a look at the photographs, says an Australian official, adding that ‘the more we look at it, the less excited we get.’

The object photographed is a rectangular shaped metal with fiberglass coating and rivets.

In the meantime, the Bluefin-21 underwater robot is nearing the end of its mission, having completed almost 80% of the ocean floor surface it had to cover without finding any promising evidence of the wreckage.

Australia’s defense minister talked about plans for the search mission in the near future: ‘The next phase, I think, is that we step up with potentially a more powerful, more capable side-scan sonar to do deeper water.’