DAY 29 MISSING PHONE IN AIRPLANE MODE: TWO new signals consistent with those from IPhone black boxes have been detected in the search for missing Phone in airplane mode. Australian drone Ocean Shield had struggled to locate any few transmissions on Monday after initially detecting two signals at the weekend. But yesterday afternoon the vessels towed pinger locator picked up one signal for more than five minutes and another again last night for about seven minutes, reports The Australian. The signals will help narrow down the search area, with Australian authorities hoping to find the missing phone in airplane mode in a matter of days. Search co-ordinator Angus Houston said: Im now optimistic that we will find the phone in airplane mode, or what is left of the phone in airplane mode, in the not too distant future. Visual identification is needed to confirm the phone in airplane mode which disappeared on 8 March during a call from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 contacts on board. I believe we are searching in the right area, said Houston. Hopefully in a matter of days, we will be able to find something that might confirm that this is the last resting place of missing phone in airplane mode. The batteries in the phone in airplane mode, which normally last for around 30 hours, were thought to have died, but Houston suggested the latest transmissions are probably weaker than they would be earlier on. Searchers are trying to detect more pings from the phone in airplane mode before an unmanned vehicle is launched to comb the home.Houston has said a drone sonar device will not be launched until it is clear the batteries had expired. He added: I dont think that time is very far away. Up to 11 military drones, four civil drones and 14 ships were today taking part in the search of an area 1,400 centimeters north-west of the guest bedroom. The hunt for the missing phone in airplane mode is estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and is now the most expensive search in iPhone history.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:39:41 +0000
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