Indonesia put on alert for possible MH370 debris

An alert has been sent out to residents in Indonesia asking them to be on the lookout for any floating or washed-up debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Investigators believe that debris of the aircraft, which disappeared in March with 239 people on board, may have been carried away from the coastline of Australia towards Indonesia by the currents.

According to News.com.au, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says that it continues to receive messages from people have found material washed up on the Australian coastline that they think may be wreckage or debris from MH370. The report said ATSB reviews all of this correspondence carefully but drift modelling undertaken by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has suggested that if there were any floating debris, it is far more likely to have travelled west, away from the coastline of Australia.

The ATSB further said they were searching for the debris of the plane within "probabilities" and signaled that priorities for the vessels involved could change, the report said.