Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH370 latest update on search makes out the possible signals from a plane's black box, and search teams are hopeful that this could be the black box from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The search continues as head of the Australian agency co-ordinating the search says "this is a most promising lead" on Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH370 latest update.
Search coordinator Angus Houston said in a conference Monday that Australian navy ship 'Ocean Shield' detected two distinct long-lasting sounds underneath waters. Officials posit that the sounds are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes and this could mean a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 latest update and major breakthrough for the hunt of the missing jet.
The Malaysia Airlines plane was carrying 239 people, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when it mysteriously disappeared on 8 March. As of today, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 latest updates reveal that officials still do not know why the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers and disappeared way out of its intended path.
As Malaysian officials believed it to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, search efforts continued on the Indian Ocean, Monday. A Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 latest update on the search is twelve planes and 14 ships out scanning three designated zones, one of which overlapping with the Ocean Shield's search below sea. Meanwhile, other previous surface searches have brought only fishing equipment and some other trash floating in the ocean.
Though this Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH370 latest update on searches could take days to confirm as belonging to the missing plane, Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the multinational search, says the discovery offers "a most promising lead" yet. He says that these signals were stronger and lasted longer than the faint signals which a Chinese ship picked up from farther south in the search zone using less advanced equipment. The Chinese ship reportedly used a sonar device called a hydrophone in search of the sounds.
However, Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammudin Hussein in Kuala Lumpur told reporters that with regard to the Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH370 latest update, "We are cautiously hopeful that there will be a positive development in the next few days, if not hours."
This may be due to the little time left to find the black box as its batteries last only about a month, and Tuesday counts exactly one month since the plane disappeared. Houston also added in lieu of positive hopes from the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 latest updates, "Significantly, this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. I would want more confirmation before we say this is it. Without wreckage, we can't say it's definitely here. We've got to go down and have a look."
The Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH370 latest update may prove positive results. Meanwhile, backgrounds of both passengers and crew have been investigated to possibly determine the plane's disappearance, but reports claim there is still no concrete evidence as to the cause of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370's disappearance.
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