It is back to square one once again as a news report confirms that the life raft found by fishermen in Port Dickson is not from flight MH370.

The New Straits Times alert was also tweeted by Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Razali Ismail.

Earlier, the daily reported that the damaged life raft with the word "Boarding" was discovered at noon.

One of the fishermen, Azman Mohamad, 40, said when the fishermen spotted the raft floating, they immediately alerted the Kuala Linggi Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in Malacca.

They were unable to lift the raft as it was very heavy.

"We managed to tie it to our boat as we feared it would sink due to the damages," he said.

However, a Kuala Linggi MMEA spokesperson said the raft sunk into the sea while MMEA officers were trying to bring the raft onboard.

Orange object found at South China Sea

Earlier, a Chinese rescue vessel had retrieved a floating object from the sea and there appears a possibility it could be from MH370.

The object, according to China's Xinhua news agency, was found at the location over which the plane is said to have possibly disappeared in the early hours of Saturday morning, with 239 people on board.

Xinhua this morning tweeted a picture of two men, said to be from one of the Chinese ships that arrived at the site, trying to fish an orange object from the sea with long sticks (photo: above) .

It is yet to be confirmed if the object was from MH370.

 

Over the past few days, several debris, which were initially spotted, were later found not to be from the aircraft.

Tests on an oil slick had also ruled out aviation fuel.