Vietnamese authorities say they already searched the area where the Chinese satellites photographed possible debris, but will check again to make sure.
One military official has told Reuters a plane has been sent to the region already.
“We are aware and we sent planes to cover that area over the past three days,” deputy transport minister Pham Quy Tieu told Reuters.
“Today a (military) plane will search the area again.”
However another military official said they are waiting to view the photographs to identity the exact area themselves.
China is also distancing itself from the strength of the images as evidence of the plane. Li Jiaxiang, chief of the Civil Aviation Administration of China told media a short time ago they can not confirm the debris photographed has anything to do with flight MH370.
One of the most defining aspects of this mystery is the level of conflicting information. In the last day alone the focus has shifted back to the South China Sea after Malaysian authorities
hosed down reports the plane was believed to have turned back and may have flown over the Malacca Strait.