#MH370 DAY 31- Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston (Retd) *Encouraging leads unfolded in the past 24 hours but still needs confirmation. Summary: -The pinger locator deployed by Ocean Shield detected 2 fresh signals consistent with those emitted from aircraft black boxes -Two separate signal detections, occurred within the northern part of the defined search area: First detection was about 2 hours 20 mins. The ship then lost contact before conducting a turn, attempting to reacquire the signal. The second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes. Houston said - This transmission is consistent with the black box & cockpit voice recorder. It is the best encouraging information from the search so far. However treat this cautiously until further confirmation. I am more optimistic now, than I was last week -When asked what else can be sending such signal from the underwater nature if not the black box ? My personal view, probably nothing. But, bare in mind strange things do happen in deep oceanic waters. I want more confirmation before I can say this is it The point is, this correlates very well with the work done in Kuala Lumpur & essentially this is being done without finding wreckage so far. I think its quite extraordinary. What I would like to see now, lets find some wreckage. That would help us solve this mystery - The Ocean Shield will remain in the area & will attempt to make contact with the signals again. Houston said it could take days to confirm whether the signals were from the missing plane.Ocean Shield will stay in her position until she can verify something. -He added its a slow, painstaking process to tow the pinger locator. Each leg of the search can take 7-8 hours to complete.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 05:59:40 +0000
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