Australian authorities have said a plane involved in the search for the missing MH370 flight has spotted objects in a new search area in the Indian Ocean.
A tweet from the Australian Marine Safety Authority (AMSA) said a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion aircraft spotted the objects on Friday.
The sightings will need to be confirmed by ship, which is not expected to take place until Saturday.
It comes after the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has shifted after data suggested it was travelling faster than previously thought.
A helicopter is unloaded from a transport plane at the air base near Perth Analysis of radar from before contact with flight MH370 was lost indicated the plane was burning up fuel more quickly and may not have travelled as far south over the Indian Ocean.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau described the data, which came from analysis by Boeing, as the "most credible lead to where debris may be located".
Search teams have been relocated to scour an area 685 miles northeast of the zone they had been operating in.
Some 10 aircraft, including nine military planes, are involved and six ships are being sent to the region.
Experts will also trawl through satellite images of the new search zone to identify any possible crash sites.
During a news conference on Friday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian authorities said the search in the Indian Ocean could shift to a deep sea search and salvage if no sign of the missing plane was discovered before the 30-day life of its black box battery.
The search is now nearly three weeks old and the operation has had to be called off twice due to bad weather.
Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, chief executive of Malaysia Airlines, was asked about the psychological testing of pilots employed by the airline.
He said: "They do psychological tests when they take new pilots on. That is something we check yearly and six-monthly, depending on how old they are, through an interview with aviation doctors."
Hishammuddin Hussein, acting minister of transport for Malaysia, added the new search area "could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by various satellite images" because of ocean drift.
Search teams are using 10 planes in an attempt to find missing flight MH370 Professor Chris Bellamy, maritime security expert at the University of Greenwich, said it was not surprising that the search area continues to change.
He told Sky News: "In that time (since satellite images), with a current of approximately three knots the debris could have drifted that distance.
"We may be talking about a load of debris floating in the area that they have been searching just before they moved the area and an impact in the new area.
"It doesn't totally surprise me that it's taken them so long to refine the search and decide that the plane probably went in further north."
The development comes after images from a Thai satellite showed 300 objects ranging from two to 15 metres in size scattered in the sea about 1,700 miles southwest of Perth.
Prayers and messages of support left on a wall at Kuala Lumpur airport A French satellite spotted more than 120 objects floating in the ocean, while Japan is also reported to have captured aerial images of 10 items.
It is not known whether any of the objects are from the missing Boeing 777, which disappeared on March 8 as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The plane is thought to have crashed with the loss of all 239 people on board after flying thousands of miles off course.
The search for the missing plane resumed after it was suspended earlier this week because of poor weather off the coast of Australia.
Heavy rain, strong winds and low cloud caused reduced visibility and forced aircraft to turn back.
Distraught relatives of the 150 Chinese passengers on board the plane continue to voice their anger and frustration at the speed of the investigation.
Some Chinese insurance companies have started paying compensation to the families, according to the state news agency.
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