Wooden pallets are also quite common on every ship in the world.
Have seen this portrayed this way a couple places, but, when I watched the actual clip from the news conference yesterday evening on NBC Nightly News the person speaking characterized what was observed as random ocean debris that could have come from anywhere or anything.
Ocean debris more than likely. Dead whale caught in a net, maybe a couple of shipping containers.
If its aircraft debris I am not buying its from the 777.
It’s about 8:30pm over there and weather is poor. I anxiously await watercraft access to these debris sitings. I’ll remain hopeful, but there is no guarantee any of this debris is from the plane.
It’s now been two weeks since FL-370 disappeared. Wind and ocean currents could easily have moved debris +1,000 miles from the actual crash site.
Have not seen this asked: There is supposed to be an emergency transmitter that automatically begins to ping upon impact. I believe it transmits to satellite if it’s on the surface.
If it sank, can the pings be picked up by sonar? Does the sonar array have to be on a ship or can they drop a buoy?
probably radioactive debris from Fukushima caught in an eddy and spun south and west, as opposed to the majority which went east.
As vast as the oceans may be, they are still full of man made junk and garbage of all sizes.
The disinformation campaign continues. Meanwhile on an airstrip in W Pakistan. :-)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In one part of the North Pacific Ocean, the ocean currents create a gyre (a huge slowly moving spiral of water). Scientists have found the world’s biggest floating landfill there.
It’s hard to know how much garbage is in the gyre, but it’s probably millions of pounds. Scientists think that it is nearly impossible to scoop up all the trash—there is just way too much. Some people think it is as large as the continent of North America and over 100 feet deep! 
pThere is no solid island of debris from Japan heading to the United States. Here is an example of confirmed Japan tsunami marine debris arriving in the U.S.: a 4-by-4-foot plastic bin spotted off the eastern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on September 18, 2012. The barnacles on its bottom are a common open-water species. (Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory)
I wonder what the General who insists the plane is in Pakistan thinks of all the money and effort being put into finding the plane in the South Indian Ocean?
Anyway, it fits well with my suspicion that the pilot, for political reasons, commandeered the plane, overcame the copilot (or simply locked him out of the cabin), disabled everyone else, then started to circle back to Malaysia to do his own 9/11 before coming to his senses, realizing what he’d done, and then taking a suicide dive into the ocean.
And if he didn’t change his mind, but just ran out of fuel on the way in, they’ll find the plane south of Malaysia near Singapore. (I doubt that, but looking at the pings, that’s the likely course he would have taken if he were headed back to Malaysia.)
If it does not have a serial number on it, independently confirmed by Boeing, the debris is prima facie planted as far as I am concerned.
Lets also have a popcorn machine known to be on the flight as well as golden bobby pins from missing Princess Xianli’s hair.All of it s crap without independent Boeing confirmation, airframe serial numbers.
Pardon my cynicism.
We need to start thinking outside the envelope!
CNN: Crew of Chinese plane searching for MH370 has spotted “suspicious objects” in south Indian Ocean, China’s state-run media reports.