Users of the Tomnod crowdsourcing site have indicated a possible debris field, which has alleged links to the missing flight MH370, at the Strait of Malacca, according to a report by Malaysia’s News Strait Times (NST).

NST reported that Richard Barrow, a Twitter user, posted a satellite image of "a potential crash site" and "possible floating seats" on the surface of the ocean at coordinate 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.

Indonesian authorities Sunday alerted and warned Elka Athina, a Greek petrochemical tanker, that they were "approaching a field of debris" when the latter was heading towards Suez seaport city in Egypt.

They later asked the tanker to keep an eye out for ‘floating suitcases’ at the Strait of Malacca.

A first officer of Elka Athina barge told a Greek news portal in a recently-published audio interview that it was steaming towards a "debris zone" in the northern waters of the Malacca Strait.

However, according to NST, checks with online ship tracking websites revealed that Elka Athina had sailed past the debris field at about 9.30 pm (Malaysia Time) on Sunday.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on March 8 when it was carrying 239 people on board from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

According to AFP, the number of countries involved in the physical search for the jet has nearly doubled to 25 after satellite and military radar data projected two dauntingly large and contrasting corridors the plane might have flown through.

The northern corridor stretches in an arc over south and central Asia, while the other extends deep into the southern Indian Ocean towards Australia.