by Benson Agoha
The towed pinger locator deployed from the Australian defence vessel, Ocean Shield, on Thursday last week, has detected signals "consistent" with those emitted from aircraft black boxes, say Australian Authorities.
The announcement was made in Perth as hope was strenghtened when Australian Authorities said the consistent signal was encouraging.
The search party working for the missing Malaysian Passenger flight which went missing on March 8, has reportedly got a signal from the black box.
Australian Royal Airforce and teams from other countries have been using aircrafts, and ships to scan the South India Occean for the plane which disappeared with 239 people after take off. It was flying to Beijing.
The breakthrough is being reported just two days after underwater pinger locator was launched in a bid to find it before the black box battery runs flat.
Australian, British and Americans are using the pinger locator, submarine and under-water drones to scan the Occean bed for evidence.
A senior official said ealier today, Monday that search teams racing against time in the hunt for missing Malaysian flight MH370, detected a new signal.
Angus Houston, head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) in Perth said “The towed pinger locator deployed from the Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield has detected signals consistent with those emitted from aircraft black boxes.”
Media reports say the towed pinger-locator heard a first signal for two hours and 20 minutes, and a second signal for 13 minutes, according to the Stait Times.
“Clearly this is a most promising lead,” Houston told reporters, adding the signals is encouraging to the search time, as the battery's life-span is running out.
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The towed pinger locator deployed from the Australian defence vessel, Ocean Shield, on Thursday last week, has detected signals "consistent" with those emitted from aircraft black boxes, say Australian Authorities.
The announcement was made in Perth as hope was strenghtened when Australian Authorities said the consistent signal was encouraging.
The search party working for the missing Malaysian Passenger flight which went missing on March 8, has reportedly got a signal from the black box.
Australian Royal Airforce and teams from other countries have been using aircrafts, and ships to scan the South India Occean for the plane which disappeared with 239 people after take off. It was flying to Beijing.
The breakthrough is being reported just two days after underwater pinger locator was launched in a bid to find it before the black box battery runs flat.
* Mr Angus Houston: new "consistent" signal is encouraging to the search team.
A senior official said ealier today, Monday that search teams racing against time in the hunt for missing Malaysian flight MH370, detected a new signal.
Angus Houston, head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) in Perth said “The towed pinger locator deployed from the Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield has detected signals consistent with those emitted from aircraft black boxes.”
Media reports say the towed pinger-locator heard a first signal for two hours and 20 minutes, and a second signal for 13 minutes, according to the Stait Times.
“Clearly this is a most promising lead,” Houston told reporters, adding the signals is encouraging to the search time, as the battery's life-span is running out.
* Follow me on Twitter(follow): @bensonagoha and @woolwichonline.
* Photo Credit: AFP/ST
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