Report: Chinese ship hears pulse signal in south Indian Ocean

CNN.com ^ | 4/5/14 | Brown, Brumfeld, Spark

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

(CNN) -- A Chinese patrol ship looking for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean discovered Saturday a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5 kHz, state news agency Xinhua reported. "That is the standard beacon frequency" for both so-called black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, said Anish Patel, president of pinger manufacturer Dukane Seacom. "They're identical." But experts cautioned that no confirmation had been made that the signal was linked to the missing plane. "This could be a variety of things," said oceanographer Simon Boxall, who said the frequency is used by a variety of instruments. "We've had a lot of red herrings, hyperbole on this whole search," the lecturer in ocean and earth science at the University of Southampton told CNN. "I'd really like to see this data confirmed." He added, "It could be a false signal."

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

The Fake Reverend Al Sharpton has become very very angry over the term “Black Box”.Apparently it has severe racial overtones.He may just demand that the ASPCA change it to “CrackerHead-Box”.

[Cheerio]

Communist News Network is desperate to keep this story alive, no matter the accuracy or inaccuracies being reported.

They would not dare report on Bengahzigate, the $6 Billion lost State Dept funds, the IRS scandal which continues to this day, Brendan Eich Mozilla chief being forced out for having a different view than the gay mafia, John Ketchup Kerry's Mideast mess, unemployment stuck at 6.7% and labor participation of males at the lowest level since the 1950s, or Holder using Government aircraft 27 times for personal business!!

My God the news media is every bit as corrupt as the WH and their thousands of admin personnel.

[plain talk]

The black box will certainly tell us more than we know now which is very little. I hope they find it and this is promising. However even if they have detected the black box they still have little time to locate the plane and that is some deep ocean.

[Cheerio]

Perhaps he is right just once in his life. The "Black Box"

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

Al Sharpton:Azz the bespectable Reverand Al Sharpton,Eye doo baleeve dat da FCC,da APPCA and dat PMSNBC legal athoratee firm need much to do much about dis PamAm flight 696 dat flew in da deeps of da Black Sea and we much need to do wat we can to save doze 897 unfortunate souls before da plane loses much of its air! I am gonna call my whitey friend Al Gore to see what much notacoracle assistance we can much offer!!!

[hsmomx3]

And just in time, too, considering that ping can be detected for up to approx. 30 days.

[a fool in paradise]

Yes, but THIS is C-N-N. That adds some credibility, doesn't it? < / sarc>

#WARONGEOGRAPHY

[Fedupwithit]

‘Das Limpett!!!!”

[deport]

And just in time, too, considering that ping can be detected for up to approx. 30 days

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That’s assuming it was or has been functioning.

Batteries on Missing #MH370 Black Box Were Expired, Due to Be Replaced

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3141182/posts

[USAF80]

Most birds don’t require a one month search. The best option would be an eject-able ELT that floats and sends out a satellite signal. To date the military is the only one who has an eject-able ELT.

I agree with your system too but you would still have too look for it. Best to have both systems on the same box. One that pings away then one that does the sleep/listen/ping thing.

[USAF80]

They are usually together.

[cynwoody]

Everyone has a vested interest in that plane going down in the Indian Ocean. They WANT it to have gone down in the Indian Ocean. They WANT us to believe it went down in the Indian Ocean whether they ever find it or not.

I would say Inmarsat stands to gain the most from this turning out to be the airplane.

[USAF80]

I would say Inmarsat stands to gain the most from this turning out to be the airplane.

Boeing is my fave. They had the 787 mess now this.

[cynwoody]

The FDR will probably have a lot of interesting information concerning the airplane's diversion from its planned flight path.

But the CVR only reportedly records only the most recent two hours, so the interesting stuff will likely have been overwritten with engine roar followed by relative quiet and a big splash.

[Uncle Chip]

The FDR will probably have a lot of interesting information concerning the airplane's diversion from its planned flight path.

It's a Catch 22 --

Unless they know the plane's flight path, they may never find the FDR -- so they need to find the FDR so they can know the plane's flight path.

[USAF80]

They will be able to reconstruct the flight if all the data is available and not corrupted or destroyed. That will shed some light on what may have happened.

[COBOL2Java]

LOL. What’s he hiding in that hair?

[NautiNurse]

Since when does a downed plane cause such a massive effort for this length of time by the entire world?

239 souls from 14 nations vanished on board a Boeing 777 which has a nearly flawless safety record, along with:

1. Twitter and other social media outlets added to a feverish 24/7 news cycle frenzy;

2. Muslims in the cockpit and multiple passengers using stolen passports;

3. Countless episodes of conflicting reports for flight path, altitude, speed, radar signals.

Other than the above, it makes for a rather intriguing mystery.

[NautiNurse]

[cherokee1]

I’ve been having my own problem with that whole “30 day battery life.” explanation. Sounds like a “lowest bidder” piece of krap. We have a wolf here in the Northwest that’s been wearing a transmitter collar for at least two years and his unit is just starting to weaken. Maybe we could just put a collared wolf on each airplane to kep track of them?