Posted on 04/07/2014 7:20:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Australian navy picked up extended underwater signals in the search zone for Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU +2.44% Flight 370, in what authorities said Monday was the best lead yet in the hunt for the missing jet's "black box" flight recorders.
The naval ship Ocean Shield—fitted with U.S. Navy black-box detector equipment able to pick up signals far beneath the ocean surface—has been searching an area of the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia for nearly two days. Investigators believe the area is the most likely spot where the plane may have run out of fuel, more than a thousad miles from the nearest airport, after disappearing from civilian radar on March 8.
The first of the signals late at night on Saturday local time was held for more than two hours, retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who is leading the multinational search, said Monday. On a return trip along the same path early Sunday, two distinct "pinger" signals were detected and held for about 13 minutes.
"Significantly this would be consistent with transmission from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder," Air Chief Marshal Houston said. "Clearly this is a most promising lead and probably in the search so far. The audible signal sounds to me just like an emergency locator beacon."
The potential breakthrough comes despite the failure so far of a multinational team of military aircraft to spot any debris related to Flight 370 on the surface of the ocean in more than two weeks. Instead, investigators have relied on radar, satellite communications and other data to plot where they believe plane likely went down.
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Hope no one dear to you is ever on one of those flights.
I have spent years at sea doing exactly this kind of stuff (including looking for lost people). This is one of the most inhospitable parts of the world ocean.
Don’t call me a NAZI. I have two kids who have been in the military serving this country. (one in combat)
“If it saves one life”! That is the coward’s way out (easy for you to say... it’s not your life). A “conservative site”? Yes. that is why7 I am here, but when I see stupid comments like yours, I wonder why you are here.
You sir (or madam ) are an idiot.
Go to hell! (If they ban me..;. fine!)
Well the inference is already implied so even if the pilot(or Co-pilot) wanted to hide the suicide it would be hard too..but the whole skirting Indonesian radar(and airspace) I dont know..the whole thing is just so weird..makes me think that it was either someone on that plane or something on that plane that someone wanted SO badly they would do something like this to achieve it..without actual wreckage Im willing to believe that someone took the black box, floated out to the ocean and threw it in, I know, crazy thought, but this entire thing is crazy so why not
standin up cheerin...Hats off to you sir !!!
Geesh, what did I write that was so horrible? I didn’t call you a NAZI. Frankly my addition to your post was simply a statement of fact. No call for your angry backlash.
What did I do that was so terrible? Good Lord. All I did was add to it.
In my book, DG is out for four reasons 1 - it was the Russian propaganda machine that started the rumor, day one. 2-the fake 'black photo' appears to be nothing more than a twisted attack on the family of, who'da guessed -the one adult American on the flight. 3 - transferring the blame for the disappearance on the USA draws attention away from the moosefolk - it's a rumor designed to create tension between the USA and China, and 4-if the USA diverted the aircraft for security reasons, they wouldn't keep the passengers incommunicado for 30 days while families wailed. We would have announced the situation and everyone would be home by now as we all celebrated yet another avoided disaster.
Graphic of most recent ping sounds locations:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-09/ocean-shield-detected-pingers-mh370-search/5378120
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