Another Hussein, Malaysian Air Traffic official is hyping big time that this debris is Flight 370, seems like a whole lotta effort sending assets without first confirming, all they have to do is send aircraft, confirm its not a dead whale carcass or a shipping container.
Spotting/identifying either one can be very deceptive. Birds can be picked up by radar,debris is harder to register and even tougher to tell what it is until you get right on top of it. Almost anything you can imagine can be floating in the ocean. Especially after storms,that's when everything shows up. Trying to positively identify stuff floating in the ocean is really tough until you get right on top of it. Even then there is usually stuff floating just under the surface as well.
The weather is bad, they couldn’t it find it by plane yet.