After an Australian vessel again detected deep-sea signals consistent with those from an airplane’s black box, the official leading a multination search says he’s hopeful crews will find the wreckage of a missing Malaysian jet “within a matter of days.”
“I believe we’re searching in the right area,” Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said at a press conference in Perth.
Since Saturday, the Ocean Shield — equipped with a U.S. Navy black box detection system — has picked up four separate transmissions, the two most recent of which came on Tuesday. The newest signals are significant, because the increased data could allow searchers to more accurately predict where on the Indian Ocean floor the sounds are coming from.
In earlier weeks the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 involved more than 100 ships and aircraft, searching much of the world’s largest continent and third-largest ocean. But the operation has now narrowed, with the help of satellite analysis and the deep-sea signals, into something officials say is finally manageable.
A search area once the size of the contiguous United States is now about the size of South Carolina. Though 15 aircraft and 14 ships are still scouring the Indian Ocean, search officials say the best lead is being pursued only by the Ocean Shield. If other ships joined that area, Houston said, they’d create noise pollution and interfere with any sounds coming from the three-mile depths. ..
“I believe we’re searching in the right area,” Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said at a press conference in Perth.
Since Saturday, the Ocean Shield — equipped with a U.S. Navy black box detection system — has picked up four separate transmissions, the two most recent of which came on Tuesday. The newest signals are significant, because the increased data could allow searchers to more accurately predict where on the Indian Ocean floor the sounds are coming from.
In earlier weeks the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 involved more than 100 ships and aircraft, searching much of the world’s largest continent and third-largest ocean. But the operation has now narrowed, with the help of satellite analysis and the deep-sea signals, into something officials say is finally manageable.
A search area once the size of the contiguous United States is now about the size of South Carolina. Though 15 aircraft and 14 ships are still scouring the Indian Ocean, search officials say the best lead is being pursued only by the Ocean Shield. If other ships joined that area, Houston said, they’d create noise pollution and interfere with any sounds coming from the three-mile depths. ..
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