Every day jets from the Royal Australian airforce head out from this small airbase in Perth to join the search for the missing Malaysia airlines jet.
China has also sent out substantial forces to search for flight MH370, which vanished from radar screens more than two weeks ago.
(SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE NEWS READER CUI ZHIGANG, SAYING:
"We will now tell everyone about some news related to a developing situation. According to a report by Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese Ilyushin-76 plane spotted multiple suspicious objects today, the 24th, in the South Indian Ocean amid the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft. According to a crew member of the search plane, the position of the suspicious objects is latitude East 95.1 and longitude South 42.54. China has already informed Australia of this information along with China's Xuelong (search boat)."
Chinese icebreaker Xuelong is joining a flotilla of vessels heading south, where the debris has been spot
