Australia Rebuffs Possibility Of Flight 370 Wreckage In Bay Of Bengal

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The countries searching for the missing Malaysian jet are assessing a claim by a resource survey company that it found possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of Bengal, Malaysia's defense minister said Tuesday.

US pilot claims to have found plane on satellite image; Adelaide-based GeoResonance has detected possible debris in Bay of Bengal.

Geophysical survey company GeoResonance on Monday said it had spotted pieces of wreckage in the Bay of Bengal and that it should be investigated as potential debris from the Malaysian plane. But the present search coordinators have dismissed the 

GeoResonance has discovered what it believes to be the wreckage of a commercial aircraft approximately 190km south of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal sitting on the seabed approximately 1000m from the surface.

The Australian-led team searching for missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 has discounted claims by a private company that it may have found the plane's wreckage in the Bay of Bengal, thousands of kilometres from the