Search team en route to missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet 'crash site' indicated by Chinese Satellite to verify their claims

A Malaysian search team is on its way to the area that new satellite images suggest could be the crash site of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Two US Navy vessels have reportedly been deployed to the area where the suspected wreckage has been pictured in the images, which is relatively close to the last known location of the passenger jet before it dropped off the radar between Malaysia and Vietnam on Saturday morning.

 the coordinates of the satellite images also correlate with evidence released this morning that a New Zealand man working on an oil rig believed he saw the plane "come down" in flames.

The development comes after Chinese officials released the satellite images of a blurry spot suspected as being the wreckage of MH370 seen in the South China Sea, close to the plane's projected flight path.

The images, captured about 11am on Sunday but only released today, show three large pieces at sea, the largest of which measures 24m by 27m, according to the Chinese State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.