Kuala Lumpur : Samples taken from an oil slick off Malaysia are not from a missing jet based on a chemistry lab analysis, an official said Monday.
"The oil is not used for aircraft," Maritime Enforcement Agency spokeswoman Faridah Shuib said, adding it was a type used by ships.
The slick, from which the samples were collected, was about 185 kilometres north off Malaysia's east coast state of Kelantan and just south of the point where air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
"The oil is not used for aircraft," Maritime Enforcement Agency spokeswoman Faridah Shuib said, adding it was a type used by ships.
The slick, from which the samples were collected, was about 185 kilometres north off Malaysia's east coast state of Kelantan and just south of the point where air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
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