Has missing Malaysia plane flight MH370

 been found off Australia?

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the discovery of two large pieces of apparent debris may be significant

Any hope of finding out what the floating objects quickly appear quite slim.

The weather hampering efforts with cloud and sea swell and now Australian Minister David Johnston has given his assessment.

He says we will only know something definite within the next "two or three days".

Families continue to hold out hope that their loved ones may still be alive despite learning that possible debris had been found 1,550 miles off the coast of Australia.

They are gathered at a hotel in Beijing where they attend daily briefings with Malaysia Airlines.

As you can see in the picture below, they hugged one another and appeared despondent when they were urgently called back to a briefing to hear that Australia had found possible evidence of debris in satellite images taken at the weekend.

Security experts have said they don't believe the plane would have reached the point at which the debris was found without someone at the flight controls.

Neil Fergus, who was Director of Intelligence at Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games, made the claim on Australia's Channel 9.

He also ruled out a catastrophic malfunction, suggesting the plane couldn't have made it all the way to an area south west of Perth simply due to any kind of fault.

Mr Fergus told the channel the only way the plane could have made it that far from its original flight path was by human hand, be it by one or both of the pilots, or passengers.

Elsewhere, investigators are believed to be looking into a phone call made in the cockpit by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

Analysts were looking into the call, according to The Sun.