China is in close communication with Australia on the search for the missing MH370 plane, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Friday.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said on Friday objects spotted on satellite images that sparked an international hunt in the remote southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have sunk.
Experts: China-Malaysia relation will be strengthened
Icebreaker Xuelong will head for the south Indian Ocean to hunt for the missing jetliner, and three Air Force planes are now flying to Malaysia.
Three Chinese Air Force planes have been sent to Malaysia to help with the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
A spokesman of the US Defense Department reaffirmed that the US will continue with full effort to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner.
China on Thursday confirmed the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 did not enter the territory of China, said a statement released by Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Rescue authorities study satellite data on Friday for more clues of the lost Malaysian plane, after an air and sea search in the remote Indian Ocean off Australia failed to find any trace.
There have been so many times that I thought we were close to finding the plane, or at least decent evidence of its fate. But these reports have always ended in disappointment.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott held a phone conversation Thursday over possible objects from a missing Malaysian jetliner.
President Xi Jinping says China will keep close contact and cooperation with Australia in the search for the missing jet.
The committee representing relatives of the passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went into operation on Thursday and considered the questions to be raised to the Malaysian envoy team that will attend Friday's news briefing.
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