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news.com.au
*Unconfirmed report says Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 black box has been found
RESCUE teams are now within “several” kilometres of what they are now confident are the black box flight recorders from missing Malaysian plane MH370, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed.
But he said they were now engaged in a race against time to find it as the signal starts to fade.
The Prime Minister will meet personally with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this afternoon to update him on the latest efforts to find the black box, hinting that it would soon be located.
“We have very much narrowed down the search area … we have now had a series of detections, some for quite a long period of time.
“It’s now getting to the stage that the signal from what we are very confident is from the black box is starting to fade.
“We are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signals finally expire.
“We have very much narrowed down the search area.
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HAVE THEY FOUND MAS FLIGHT MH370?
TWO POSITIVE LEADS HAVE EMERGED!
1.The signal detected by a Chinese ship searching the Indian Ocean for Flight MH370 is “consistent” with the type emitted from the aircraft black box.
2. A Chinese air force plane had spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area. According to an AFP report, the objects were sighted on the surface about “90km from the detection area”.
However, there is no confirmation at this stage that the signals and the objects are related to the missing aircraft.
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skynews.com.au
Three ‘acoustic events’ in MH370 search
Updated: 16:28, Sunday April 6, 2014
A Chinese ship twice detected a ‘pulse signal’ at a frequency used by aircraft black boxes, while an Australian vessel is investigating a separate ‘acoustic noise’ in the search for flight MH370.
Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who is co-ordinating the search, told reporters in Perth on Sunday the Chinese ship Haixun 01 had detected two ‘acoustic events’ which provided ‘some promise’ and required a full investigation.
The first signal was detected on Friday and the second, which lasted 90 seconds, was detected on Saturday within two kilometres of the original detection.
‘This is an important and encouraging lead but one which I urge you to continue to treat carefully,’ Air Chief Marshal Houston said.
He warned no signals or objects found in the ocean had been verified as being from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
British naval ship HMS Echo would arrive in the search zone in about 14 hours, he said.
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=964951&vId=4398919
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Malaysian Insider
Ships, planes race to where black box signals are detected by Chinese, Aussies
April 06, 2014 01:35 pm
The towed pinger locator being towed by Australian vessel Ocean Shield, which along with Chinese vessel Haixun 01, have detected what could be signals from the black box belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. – AFP pic, April 6, 2014.
Planes and ships involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been diverted to an area in the south Indian Ocean where signals that may be from the missing jet had been detected separately by Chinese and Australian vessels, reports say.
“This is an important and encouraging lead,” Angus Houston, who heads the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) in Perth, was quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) as saying this morning.
“We have to do further investigations on the site itself,” he said.
Australian vessel Ocean Shield, which is equipped with the United States navy’s Towed Pinger Locator (TPL-25) and a Bluefin-21 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), is investigating a separate acoustic detection, after it was reported yesterday that Chinese vessel Haixun 01 had picked up a “ping” at 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude.
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Star
Sunday April 6, 2014 MYT 9:38:09 AM
MH370 search: Signal detected ‘consistent’ with black box, says Australian ex-military chief
Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 is pictured during a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in the south Indian Ocean April 5, 2014, in this photo courtesy of China News Service. – REUTERS
PERTH: A signal detected by a Chinese ship searching the Indian Ocean for Flight MH370 is “consistent” with the type emitted from the aircraft black box, according to the Australian ex-military chief in charge of the hunt.
China’s official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that a black box detector on board the Chinese search ship had picked up a signal at a frequency of 37.5kHz.
The Underwater Acoustic Beacons on the MH370 flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder both operate at that frequency, a spokesman for Honeywell Aerospace, the manufacturers of the black boxes on board the missing plane, told AFP.
Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, head of coordination in the search, said the reported characteristics of the signal “are consistent with the aircraft black box”.
A number of white objects were also sighted on the surface about 90km from the detection area, he said, according to a statement by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC).
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Star
Sunday April 6, 2014 MYT 7:54:49 AM
MH370 search: White floating objects spotted by Chinese plane in ‘pulse signal’ area
KUALA LUMPUR/PERTH: A Chinese patrol ship hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 detected a pulse signal in the south Indian Ocean on Saturday, the state news agency Xinhua reported, in a possible indicator of the underwater beacon from a plane’s “black box”.
Xinhua also reported that a Chinese air force plane had spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area. According to an AFP report, the objects were sighted on the surface about “90km from the detection area”.
Australian search authorities said such a signal would be “consistent” with a black box, but both they and Xinhua stressed there was no conclusive evidence linking the “ping” to Flight MH370, which went missing on March 8 with 239 people aboard shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
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THE PRIME MINISTER HAS ANNOUNCED THAT MH370 HAD LANDED IN THE SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN!
HOWEVER, THE IS NO SOLID EVIDENCE OF THAT…
CONFIRMED! MAS MH370 LOST AT SEA!
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For the earlier search, go to
The Search for MAS Flight MH370 continues…
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The objects, described as a “grey or green circular object” and an “orange rectangular object”, were spotted about 2,500 km west of Perth on Monday afternoon, said Abbott, adding that three planes were also en route to the area.
Neither Malaysia nor Australia gave details on the objects’ size.
YAHOO! NEWS SINGAPORE
Australian ship homes in on possible debris from Malaysia plane
By Jane Wardell and Matt Siegel
SYDNEY/PERTH (Reuters) – An Australian navy ship was close to finding possible debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner on Monday as a mounting number of sightings of floating objects raised hopes wreckage of the plane may soon be found.
The HMAS Success should reach two objects spotted by Australian military aircraft by Tuesday morning at the latest, Malaysia’s government said, offering the first chance of picking up suspected debris from the plane.
So far, ships in the international search effort have been unable to locate several “suspicious” objects spotted by satellites in grainy images or by fast-flying aircraft over a vast search area in the remote southern Indian Ocean.
“HMAS Success is on scene and is attempting to locate and recover these objects,” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who called his Malaysia counterpart Najib Razak to inform him of the sighting, said in a statement to parliament.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/u-navy-black-box-locator-joins-search-missing-042254203–sector.html
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Malaysiakini
:48PM Mar 24, 2014
MH370 carried wooden pallets, 200kg of lithium batteries
Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has confirmed that there were wooden pallets in MH370’s cargo.
However, he said it is premature to state if the wooden pallet and belts sighted in the Indian ocean had come from the aircraft, which has been missing since March 8.
MAS chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya revealed at today’s briefing that there was 200kg of lithium-ion batteries – apart from several tonnes of mangosteen – on the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 with 229 passengers and crew.
Other items on the cargo manifest included electronic goods and radios.
Previously, the spotlight landed on the batteries due to its flammable composition which had contributed to past aviation catastrophes.
However, it was reiterated this evening that the batteries were packaged according to international requirement.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/258069
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Reuters photos
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
US Navy to preposition black box locator
By | Associated Press
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Rain was expected to hamper the hunt Monday for debris suspected of being from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as the United States prepared to move a specialized device that can locate black boxes into the south Indian Ocean region.
The U.S. Pacific command said it was sending a black box locator in case a debris field is located. The Towed Pinger Locator, which is pulled behind a vessel at slow speeds, has highly sensitive listening capability so that if the wreck site is located, it can hear the black box pinger down to a depth of about 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), Cmdr. Chris Budde, a U.S. Seventh Fleet operations officer, said in a statement.
“This movement is simply a prudent effort to preposition equipment and trained personnel closer to the search area so that if debris is found we will be able to respond as quickly as possible since the battery life of the black box’s pinger is limited,” Budde said.
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Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s rescue coordination center said the search area was expanded from 59,000 to 68,500 square kilometers (22,800-26,400 square miles) and that two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 planes had joined the search from Perth, increasing the number of aircraft to 10 from eight a day earlier.
It said the weather in the search area, about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, was expected to deteriorate with rain likely.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/us-navy-preposition-black-box-locator-035711826–finance.html
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THE SEARCH INTENSIFIES!
Ever since the Australian Prime Minister announced that they had spotted what looked like large debris, the search has focused in this areas of the Southern Indian Ocean.
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It’s been disappointing so far!
Although there have been three reports of satellite sightings of possible debris, search teams so far had only seen a wooden cargo pallet along with belts or straps.
Malaysian Insider
Poor weather hampers Indian Ocean search for MH370
March 24, 2014
Search teams scouring the Southern India Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been hampered by low visibility as cloud and fog descended over parts of the area, The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported.
Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams told the Australian daily that heavy cloud reduced his crew’s ability to see the ocean from their P3-Orion, which he said was “completely” engulfed in cloud at times, even at its lowest altitude.
“There are other aircraft out there searching other areas who were getting better visibility,” Adams told SMH.
Australian search authorities have previously said that efforts had shifted to a “visual search” rather than onboard technology.
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Australian, US and New Zealand planes have been flying sorties searching for four days looking for the Boeing 777 and they were to be joined by Chinese and Japanese aircraft on Monday.
*Today, Monday 14 March 2014
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The Chinese planes will check this out:
Slate China has spotted new debris as the search for Flight #MH370 enters its third week: http://slate.me/1gduJmo pic.twitter.com/x4HV7ENe67
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