Malaysia Flight 370: New signal sounds 'just like' one from a plane's beacon
After weeks of searching vast swaths of ocean, investigators now have their "most promising" lead yet in efforts to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
After weeks of searching vast swaths of ocean, investigators now have their "most promising" lead yet in efforts to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
A pinger locator in the
Indian Ocean has detected signals consistent with those sent by a flight
data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, said the head of the
Australian agency coordinating search operations.
The signals were picked
up Sunday by the Ocean Shield, an Australian navy ship that's towing a
sophisticated U.S. pinger locator through an area about 1,750 kilometers
(1,100 miles) northwest of Perth.
The first detection lasted for more
than two hours; a second lasted for about 13 minutes.
The sounds were heard in a
part of the ocean that's about 4,500 meters (about 14,800 feet) deep,
retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said Monday.
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