MH370 families have right to know: Australia

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday defended his decision to reveal authorities had spotted possible wreckage from a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, saying he owed it to the families affected. Abbott told parliament in Canberra on Thursday that satellite images had shown two objects in the southern Indian Ocean which could have come from flight MH370, raising hopes of a breakthrough in the Malaysian plane’s mysterious disappearance. Asked whether he had “jumped the gun” on the release of the information, given that the grainy images taken Sunday were indistinct, he said the families of those onboard were owed the information. “We owe it to the families and the friends and the loved ones of the almost 240 people on Flight MH370 to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary riddle,” he told reporters. Details about MH370 have been clouded by mystery and misinformation since it went missing on March 8, with about 240 people on board as it headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, according to AFP.