ABOARD XUELONG, March 26-- Chinese icebreaker Xuelong and warship Qiandaohu teamed up Wednesday to search for a 2-meter floating object reported earlier in the day by an aircraft hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

The coordinates of the suspicious item -- 43.313 degrees south latitude and 95.246 east longitude -- was sent to Xuelong at 0700 GMT, and the Antarctic research vessel immediately relayed the information to Qiandaohu, which was scouring waters nearby.

The two ships reached the target area two hours later and then teamed up to comb the patch of the southern Indian Ocean.

So far the crews have not located any suspicious object.


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