- They do not yet know that these objects are related to the plane.
- There is an RAAF aircraft that should be on scene about now
- Three more aircraft (two RAAF and one RNZAF) are en route
- A merchant ship has been redirected
- An RAN ship HMAS Success is en route to the area prepared to recover anything that may be from the plane
- The satellite has picked up two objects, the larger being approximately 24m in length (fuselage?)
- The weather around the area is poor, with little visibility, so the planes may not be able to see much
- Commercial satellites are being redirected to take photographs of the area
- An RAAF C130 is en route to drop marker buoys that will record drift and other things that might affect the potential sighting/recovery of these objects
- The imagery provided by satellites was spotted by the Australian Geospace Authority (I think? They only said it once and then reverted to the acronym AGO)
- They are firmly repeating that it is CREDIBLE information, credible enough to divert considerable resources to the area, but NOT CONFIRMED
- The journalists are trying to draw the two people out on whether it is the aircraft, but they are refusing to answer
- Now the journalists are asking about other countries' satellites, but the Air Commodore is holding firm, he is refusing to speculate and says more imagery will be available when it is available
- A P3 Orion will take four hours to fly to the area and will be able to search for two hours when it arrives before having to return
- This journalist is an asshole and trying to basically say that these people are being cold hearted because the families want to know
- I really like these two guys, the journalists are trying every trick in the book to get them to speculate, and they are refusing to

- "This is A lead, it is possibly the best lead we have, but we have to get there, find them, see them, assess them, before we will be able to go any further."
- Australian Defence has had offers of military assets from other countries. Defence is working to facilitate any extra assistance, bearing in mind it is a long way off the mainland (and any help is probably going to have to be based off the mainland).
- All of our search resources are now being poured into this area
- lol dumb question from Kiwi journalist about "how often would we see a large piece of debris in the ocean?" Shipping containers, duh.
- It is the size and the number of objects in the same area that has sparked their interest.
- He really is refusing to speculate. It's great, but I'll bet some of the fool reporters aren't seeing it that way.
- The AMSA guy is reinforcing that this area is FOUR HOURS off the main coast of Australia as a P3 Orion flies
- lol give it up journos, he is not going to speculate or say that it's from an aircraft
- They are going to release the images to the media at the earliest opportunity
- Information will be released in media statements as usual
- "It is in the nature of search and rescue operations that I cannot say when we will have more news"
- "We will continue until we are certain we can no longer find them"