{"id":49196,"date":"2014-04-07T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=49196"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:36:31","slug":"missing-malaysia-airlines-boeingmh370-black-box-signals-detected-breaking-news-49196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/missing-malaysia-airlines-boeingmh370-black-box-signals-detected-breaking-news-49196\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing:MH370 black box signals detected \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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International rescue teams searching for missing flight MH370 believe they may have detected the plane’s black box flight recorders after a ship picked up signals in the southern Indian Ocean.<\/h1>\n

The Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield picked up signals twice, around 370 miles north of where two signals were detected by a Chinese ship on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Crucially, there were two distinct pinger returns – suggesting transmissions from a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder on a Boeing 777 jet.<\/p>\n

Angus Houston, the former Australian defence chief heading the search, said the information was “the most promising lead” in the search so far.<\/p>\n

But he warned it could be days before authorities confirm if the signals are from the Malaysia Airlines flight, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.<\/p>\n

Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he was “cautiously hopeful that there will be a positive development in the next few days, if not hours”.<\/p>\n

Search teams are involved in a race against time as the batteries on the plane’s flight recorders could run out at any moment, meaning the signals would no longer be emitted.<\/p>\n

Mr Houston said the Ocean Shield detected the sounds on two occasions over a period totalling more than two-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n

He said: “Clearly this is a most promising lead, and probably in the search so far, it’s the probably the best information that we have had.<\/p>\n

“This would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.”<\/p>\n

Stressing the need for further confirmation, he said: “I am much more optimistic than I was a week ago.”<\/p>\n

But he added: “We are talking about a long operation here and we have yet to find the aircraft.”<\/p>\n

Search co-ordinators stressed the signals were picked up in very deep water – 4,500 metres – which is at the limit of underwater search equipment being used.<\/p>\n

The position of the sound needed to be further pinpointed, and then an underwater drone could be sent down to investigate, Mr Houston said.<\/p>\n

He went on: “It could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from MH370.<\/p>\n

“In very deep oceanic water, nothing happens fast.<\/p>\n

“I would want more confirmation before we say this is it. Without wreckage, we can’t say it’s definitely here. We’ve got to go down and have a look and hopefully we’ll find it somewhere in the area that we narrowed to.”<\/p>\n

The latest development in the search effort came as the British navy ship HMS Echo joined the hunt. The vessel carries sophisticated sound-locating equipment.<\/p>\n

No wreckage from the plane has been found during the month-long search, despite a number of debris sightings.<\/p>\n

Malaysian officials concluded – based on satellite data from several countries – that the aircraft crashed into the southern Indian Ocean to the west of Perth.<\/p>\n

Investigators have not established why the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers and appeared to divert so far from its intended route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.<\/p>\n

The backgrounds of passengers, crew and both pilots have been investigated, while terrorism and hijack have also been considered as possible explanations for the plane’s disappearance.<\/p>\n

The families of those on board have been frustrated by the huge international search operation, accusing the Malaysian authorities of mismanagement and holding back information.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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