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Bath And Body For Women > Blog > Beauty Tips Hub > Signals are ‘encouraging lead’ in Malaysia jet search – USA TODAY

Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2014 Buddhist monks write messages ahead of a mass prayer for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sunday.(Photo: Azhar Rahim, EPA)

Naval vessels carrying sophisticated deep-sea black box detectors were en route to a location in the southern Indian Ocean where a Chinese patrol ship has twice detected a pulse signal coming from the search area of a missing airliner, according to Australian officials.

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, cautioned the pulses remain unverified but told reporters in Perth Sunday that the signals were “an important and encouraging lead” in the ongoing search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The first signal was detected Saturday by a “black box detector” deployed by Chinese ship Haixun 01.The pulse was picked up around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, according to China’s official news agency, Xinhua.

On Sunday, Haixun 01 reported it had redetected the signal for 90 seconds within 1.4 miles of the original signal.

The Australian vessel Ocean Shield also is investigating a separate acoustic detection, Houston said.

“We have an acoustic event. The job now is to determine the significance of that event. It does not confirm or deny the presence of the aircraft locator on the bottom of the ocean,” Houston said, referring to each of the three transmissions.

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Xinhua also reported Saturday that a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects 56 miles from the detection area in the search area, which is northwest of the Australian city of Perth.

“I (have) made clear, that these signals and the objects could not be verified as connected to the missing aircraft … that remains the case,” Houston said.

Houston said the characteristics of the sounds reported by the Chinese are “consistent with the aircraft black box.” 
CNN, citing a senior Malaysian government source Sunday, said Flight 370 flew around Indonesian airspace after it disappeared from Malaysian military radar. The plane may have been intentionally avoiding radar detection, the source told CNN.

Up to 10 military planes, 2 civil planes and 13 ships will assist in Sunday’s search for the plane, according to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre,

Three separate search areas planned for Sunday about 1,243 miles (2,000 kilometers) northwest of Perth, which total approximately 83,000 square miles (216,000 square kilometers).

The Australian navy’s Ocean Shield and the British HMS Echo, two ships carrying sophisticated equipment that can hear the recorders’ pings, are more than 24 hours away from the site as of early Sunday.

Contributing: The Associated Press


