Chinese says satellite "observed a suspected crash area"

Josh Voorhees has a Slate article about the missing jet:

According to CNN: "A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 'observed a suspected crash area at sea,' a Chinese government agency said, a potentially pivotal lead into what has been a frustrating search for the Boeing 777. China's State Administration for Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense announced the discovery, including images of what it said were 'three suspected floating objects and their sizes.' The objects aren't small at 13 by 18 meters, 14 by 19 meters and 24 by 22 meters— the latter of which is roughly the length of a bus. The images were captured on 9 March 2014, which was the day after the plane went missing, but weren't released until recently. The Chinese agency gave coordinates of 105.63 east longitude, 6.7 north latitude, which would put it in waters northeast of where it took off in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and south of Vietnam.
Editor's note: Those coordinates are in the area where the plane originally lost contact with civilian air traffic control off the east coast of Malaysia, and not where near the Strait of Malacca, off the country's west coast, where the search was expanded to after Malaysia's military had suggested the plane could have gone hundreds of miles off course.
According to the Los Angeles Times: "At the latest count, there were forty ships and aircraft scouring the waters and jungles of Southeast Asia, searching for the plane. Twelve countries are now involved with Japan, India, and Brunei the latest to pitch in. 'This is unprecedented what we are going through,' Malaysia's acting transportation minister, Hishamuddin Hussein, said at a stormy televised news conference in Kuala Lumpur. As of Wednesday evening, the fifth day of the search had passed without any signs of the plane, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew members. That surpassed the 36 hours it took in 2009 to locate the first debris from an Air France flight from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France that crashed into the Atlantic, a far deeper body of water than the Gulf of Thailand where the Malaysian flight was last detected."

Rico says this ain't over yet...