Malaysian officials said they are assessing the claim by Adelaide-based GeoResonance.
“We’re not trying to say it definitely is MH370, however we feel it is a lead that should be followed up by the authorities,” GeoResonance director David Pope told Channel 7 News.
The company used imaging, radiation chemistry and other technologies to search the 2 million square kilometres of the ocean floor for chemicals that are found in Boeing 777 jets, and discovered aluminium, titanium, jet fuel residue and other elements in the Bay of Bengal.
GeoResonance compared images taken March 5 and 10 — before and after the plane’s disappearance — and found differences that could indicate a crash site.
The location is about 190 kilometres south of Bangladesh.
The company has been contacted by Malaysian officials, and was asked to give a presentation on its finding, Channel 7 reports.
“We’re a large group of scientists, and we were being ignored, and we thought we had a moral obligation to get our findings to the authorities,” Mr Pope told CNN.
Seems like the Malaysians are not dismissing GeoResonance's claim out of hand - but they want a properly-outlined presentation.
To me, it appears that the GeoResonance director is backing away from the initial claims that they actually found MH370.
Whether that claim was actually made by the company, or was made by the media in an unwarranted extrapolation of the initial information, is a moot point at this stage.
I can accept that GeoResonance has found all the materials that they have spoken of - but whether they come from MH370 or another crashed jet aircraft that has never been found, is something that needs to be investigated promptly, by researching aircraft crash records.