KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Malaysia said today it dispatched an aircraft to investigate the site where Chinese satellites photographed three “suspected floating objects”, near an area where several nations have been hunting for wreckage from a missing passenger plane.

“Bombardier has already been dispatched to investigate alleged claims of debris being found by Chinese satellite imagery,” Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said on his Twitter feed, on the sixth day of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and the 239 people on board. — AFPActing Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein ponders a reporter’s question during a news conference about the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 in Sepang March 12, 2014. — Reuters pic
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein ponders a reporter’s question during a news conference about the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 in Sepang March 12, 2014. — Reuters pic