This is where the Boeing 777-200 is likely to have run out of fuel and crashed, according to the analysis by the UK company Inmarsat and British aviation experts of hourly signals sent automatically from the aircraft to Inmarsat’s orbiting space vehicle. More promising still, it is where signals, assumed to have come from the locator beacons attached to the aircraft’s “black box” flight recorders, were picked up on April 5 and over the following days by an American “pinger locator” being towed by an Australian navy vessel, the Ocean Shield.
总部设在英国的国际海事卫星组织及英国航空专家对失联航班每小时自动发射到其轨道空间飞行器的信号分析表明，失联的波音777-200航班很可能就在这里耗尽燃料坠毁。更令人燃起希望的是，澳大利亚军舰海洋盾号拖曳的美制声波发射定位仪于4月5日及其后几天内在这片海域探测到定位信标所发出的信号，而上述信号被认为是由俗称客机“黑匣子”的飞行记录仪所发出的。