Posted on 04/09/2014 8:08:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a major break in a race against time, searchers for MH370 have detected two new electronic pings — both received in the last 24 hours — from what they hope is the missing Boeing BA +1.23% 777-200’s black box flight data recorders. The news was announced at a Wednesday morning press conference in Perth.
“I’m now optimistic that we will find the aircraft; what’s left of the aircraft,” Retired RAAF Air Marshal Angus Houston told reporters.
Just days before batteries on the black box pingers are expected to expire, Australian authorities leading the southern Indian Ocean search for the Malaysia Airlines 777 confirmed that Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield had, in fact, detected two new pings in the current northernmost search area; or some 1500 km (930 mi) northwest of Perth.
The U.S. Navy’s TPL-25 Towed Pinger Locator sonar, now deployed on the Ocean Shield, has been operating 24 hours a day at depths of up to 9000 ft. Thus far, it has detected four separate ping events; two on April 5th and two on April 8th local time.
The most recent signals detected by the ocean shield were consistent with what you would expect from a black box held for a little more than five minutes, Seventh Fleet spokesman Cmdr. William Marks told Forbes.com.
“It’s a continuous pinging, with pings at one-second intervals,” Marks said by phone from aboard the U.S.S. Blue Ridge. “Our sonar can pick it, but it’s not audible to the human ear.”
Marks says the pingers attached to the two separate black boxes — a cockpit voice recorder and a separate flight data recorder — each give out separate continuous signals until they run out of battery life, which by some estimates could be any day now.
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medical quarantine????
How come FNC said it was US Navy? So which is it?
Regardless of where they are, no black boxes will be found, count on it.
FNC might be wrong. ABC (Australia B C), said it was US equipment, towed by Aussie ship.
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