A private Australian company claims it found materials they "believe to be the wreckage of a commercial airliner" in the Bay of Bengal, according to CBS News. The company suspects the wreckage could be connected to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
GeoResonance, a land and sea survey company, said it found the wreckage in the bay, 100 miles south of Bangladesh, by using technology that searched for particular metals that would have been used to build a Boeing 777, CBS News reported.
The company found "an anomaly in one place in the Bay of Bengal" with a similar shape to that of a large airplane. The anomaly "appeared between the 5th and 10th of March 2014," according to a Tuesday statement obtained by CBS News.
But officials in charge of the search for Flight MH370, which went missing March 8, have dismissed the company's claim, CNN reported.
"The Australian-led search is relying on information from satellite and other data to determine the missing aircraft's location" the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which is leading the search, said according to CNN.
The "wreckage" GeoResonance found is thousands of miles away from where search efforts are currently focused in the southern Indian Ocean.
"The location specified by the GeoRsonance report is not within the search arc derived from this data. The joint international team is satisfied that the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the southerly portion of the search arc," the JACC said.
GeoResonance has not declared it found the missing plane that disappeared between Malaysia and south Vietnam with 239 people onboard.
"However it should be investigated," the company said in a statement, CNN reported.
The Malaysian government, which has faced criticism from the passengers' families over its handling of the investigation, said Tuesday they are looking into GeoResonance's claims, according to CBS News.
MH370 vanished without a trace after taking off from Kuala Lumpur headed for Beijing. A multinational search has been underway and millions of dollars have been spent, including $11.4 million by the Defense Department. But there is still no sign of the aircraft.
