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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