Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The updated news of missing Malaysian plane

It has been reported that more acoustic signals that may belong to a black box from the missing plane of Malaysia Airlines have been detected by Australian and U.S. navy officials; however, the problem is that the airliner’s location cannot be confirmed until wreckage from flight MH370 is seen on the surface or under the Indian Ocean.

Authorities said on Monday that though they are very encouraged, it is still cautious amid the clearest indications of where the wreckage of the flight MH370 could be.

The U.S Navy black box detection equipment being towed by an Australian naval ship has picked up the best clues in deep waters more than 1,500 kilometers northwest of Perth, Australia.

According to Angus Houston, the retired air chief and leader of the Australian team coordinating the international search effort, the first detection of acoustic signals on a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz was held for 2 hours 20 minutes whereas the second was heard for 13 minutes on a return leg.

He also said “Significantly, this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. This is clearly a most promising lead.”

A British naval vessel, the HMS Echo is helping  and heading to the area where a Chinese patrol ship, the Haixun-01, detected acoustic pings by using a hydrophone dangled over the side of the boat on Friday and Saturday around two kilometers apart.

Searchers hope to use equipment to begin exploring the ocean floor if they find out more of the suspected black box signals while Peter Leavy, Royal Australian Navy commodore said “If they have another acoustic event on that towed pinger locator which would be the trigger, at the moment, to launch the autonomous underwater vehicle with the underwater sonar and, powerfully camera for mapping and visually looking at the ocean floor.”


The ocean floor of 4,500 meters below the surface is situated in the area where the acoustic pulses detected as according to officials caution it could be weeks, or maybe possibly several months, before the teams of researchers find anything at that depth level over what is still a wide search area. It has been widely known that this flight MH 370 of Malaysian Airlines had vanished on March 8 while it was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing which most of the 239 passengers were Chinese.

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