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Another member of the multi-national search team picked-up two signals believed to be from the black box of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the head of the search near South Australia announced that the Australian Ocean Shield picked-up signals on Tuesday which he believed will solve the mystery behind the disappearance of the Malaysian airplane.
According to him, the signals picked up by the search team were consistent with the pings found in what authorities believed to be from the black box picked up last Saturday and Sunday. He said that the search will continue to "pick up more transmissions" that could pinpoint where the signal came from.
Houston said that the Sound-locating devices of the Ocean Shield detected two transmissions on Tuesday: one that lasted for 5 minutes in the afternoon and one that lasted for 7 minutes later in the day.
The recorders should be almost on top to be detected in the ocean floor as it has a depth of an estimated 2.8 miles.
"Hopefully with lots of transmissions we'll have a tight, small area and hopefully in a matter of days we will be able to find something on the bottom that might confirm that this is the last resting place of MH370," he stated.
Houston believed that the team is in the right area followed by the consistent transmission of signals. He said that the search crew will narrow down the search area; however, he said that authorities have yet to confirm the sounds to avoid jumping into conclusion that the signals indeed came from the missing aircraft.
The search, according to Houston would many more days to encircle the places where the alleged signals came from. "It's literally crawling at the bottom of the ocean, so it's going to take a long, long time," Houston said.
The continued search for the MH370 will cover about 1,400 miles northwest of Perth, Australia with the good weather condition.
It can be recalled that last Saturday, a Chinese vessel detected a signal believed to be from the black box of the missing MH370 that carried 239 passengers and crew. Authorities fear that the batteries of the black box which carried the information on the plight of the missing Malaysia Airlines might extinguish soon as batteries only last for a month.
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