Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- Bangladesh on Thursday said it has sent two navy frigates to the location in the Bay of Bengal where an Australian marine exploration company claimed it found aircraft wreckage, possibly that of the missing Malaysian jet.
"As soon as they get there, they will search and verify the information," Commodore Rashed Ali, director of Bangladesh navy intelligence, told CNN.
Bangladesh Navy has resumed the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
Adelaide-based GeoResonance claimed earlier this week that it may have found the wreckage of the crashed Malaysian jet in the Bay of Bengal.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre heading the search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 yesterday dismissed marine exploration company GeoResonance's claim.
"We have asked the ships in the Bay of Bengal to keep an eye for the debris of the plane," a navy spokesman told PTI.
Reports said BNS Bangabandhu and BNS Anusandhan began scouring the sea from Tuesday night but the navy official said, "we are yet to get anything to report you".
The Australian company said that electromagnetic fields captured by their airborne multispectral images some 190 kilometres off Bangladesh coast showed evidence of aluminum, titanium, copper and other elements.
It said the elements could be of the missing Boeing 777-200 which disappeared from radar on March 8.
"The company is not declaring this is MH370, however it should be investigated," GeoResonance had said.
Six days after the plane went missing, Bangladesh joined the frantic multi-nation search in its exclusive economic zone in Bay of Bengal engaging frigates and patrol aircraft as it scoured the sea for a week.
Reports back then said faint electronic signals sent to satellites from the missing Malaysian jetliner showed it might have been flown thousands of miles off course before running out of fuel over the Indian Ocean.
The renewed search was launched as experts said they have little choice but to check out the Australian company's claim.
The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370- carrying 239 people, including five Indians, an Indo-Canadian and 154 Chinese nationals – had mysteriously vanished on March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
The mystery of the missing plane continued to baffle aviation and security authorities who have so far not succeeded in tracking the aircraft despite deploying hi-tech radar and other gadgets.
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