Australian exploration company says plane wreckage may be from MH370

An Australian exploration company claims it has found wreckage that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370.

In a release Tuesday, GeoResonance said the wreckage was found 190 kilometres south of Bangladesh in the the Bay of Bengal, on the seabed around 1,000-1,100 metres from the surface.

The location is approximately 5,000 kilometres away from the official search zone off Perth in Australia

GeoResonance also said the materials found are consistent with what is used in a Boeing 777.

“The company is not declaring this is MH370, however it should be investigated,” GeoResonance said in a statement.

Company spokesperson David Pope told CNN on Tuesday morning that he’s not dismissing the satellite data, but that this lead shouldn’t be easily dismissed.

“All we know is what we have found through purely scientific work that we’ve been using for many years,” Pope said.

“We’ve found a lot of metal down there that look exactly like a Boeing 777 or an aircraft.”

Using remote sensing to analyze electromagnetic fields, the exploration team “searched for chemical elements that make up a Boeing 777,” such as aluminum, titanium, copper, steel alloys and jet fuel residue.

“The aim was to find a location where all those elements were present,” the company said.

The Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board.

The 23-page report has been passed on to Malaysian officials April 15, 2014, and officials said they are looking into it.

Clarification: An earlier version of this article stated GeoResonance claimed it had found wreckage from MH370.

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