A billboard in Beijing contains tributes to the missing passengers of flight MH370. Photograph: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images  The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is confident that debris found on a beach on Western Australia's south-west coast on Thursday does not belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.  Australia's joint agency co-ordination centre announced on Wednesday that police had taken possession of an object 10km from the town of Augusta. Malaysian officials were provided with photographs of the object.  On Thursday morning an ATSB spokesman, Martin Dolan, told ABC radio: "We've carefully examined detailed photographs that were taken for us by the police, and we're satisfied that it's not a lead in terms of the search for MH370."  Dolan said the object appeared to be sheet metal with rivets, according to CNN.  "It's sufficiently interesting for us to take a look at the photographs," he said on Wednesday, but added: "The more we look at it, the less excited we get."  The Malaysia Airlines flight went missing more than a month ago, but search officials are yet to find anything that would confirm the fate of the plane. The plane is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean, claiming the lives of all 239 passengers on board.  The find in Western Australia came shortly after the suspension of the air and underwater search for the missing plane because of poor weather conditions.  Inclement weather and ex-tropical cyclone Jack, which is moving south across the Indian ocean, may delay the resumption of the search on Thursday.  The remote submersible Bluefin-21 is conducting an underwater search mission, having scoured 90% of the focused area of interest. Nothing has yet been found.  Australia's defence minister, David Johnston, indicated the approach to the search might be revised with more powerful underwater vehicles if Bluefin's search yields no results.  The rest of the military craft involved in the aerial search on Wednesday were also forced to land because of the cyclone.
Search officials play down likelihood that material, believed to be riveted sheet metal, is from missing Malaysia Airlines plane