Australian PM Tony Abbott 'very confident' search teams have located missing device
He told reporters in China: "We have very much narrowed down the search
area and we are very confident the signals are from the black box."
The search zone is a lot smaller at just 232 sq miles, about the size of
Chicago, and is located about 1038 miles northwest of Perth.
After 35 days of speculation and searching the net is closing in on the elusive flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
"We
are confident that we know the position of the black box flight
recorder to within some kilometres," Australian Prime Minister Tony
Abbott said.
"Still, confidence in the approximate
position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from
almost four and a half kilometres beneath the sea or finally determining
all that happened on the flight."
9:46 am
Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) Chief General Tan Sri Rodzail Daud
has called for maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) for search and rescue
operations.
He said the fixed-wing aircraft designed to operate in long range and extended dutie would be helpful should a search for a missing plane in the deep ocean happen again, the New Strait Times reported.
At a press conference at Kepala Batas Air Force College, Daud said: "We hope that the government could provide us with the maritime patrol aircraft in the future.
"I believe our pilots will have no problem to operate the aircraft and equipment."
He said the fixed-wing aircraft designed to operate in long range and extended dutie would be helpful should a search for a missing plane in the deep ocean happen again, the New Strait Times reported.
At a press conference at Kepala Batas Air Force College, Daud said: "We hope that the government could provide us with the maritime patrol aircraft in the future.
"I believe our pilots will have no problem to operate the aircraft and equipment."
9:33 am
Anish Patel, President of black box pinger manufacturer Dukane
Seacom, has told CNN the black boxes will continue to be emitted for 40
days.
It's Day 35 - so time is really running out for the search crews hunting MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean about 1,038 miles northwest of Perth.
Mr Patel said: "We built them with a design margin of about ten per cent so we think they're going to go a few days longer than thirty.
"After that it's bonus time and the batteries are going to start to degrade.
"We're in that period right now so it could be a matter of days.
"We can get a very faint signal [in the lab] at 40 days but you have to be right on top of the unit to hear it at 40 days."
It's Day 35 - so time is really running out for the search crews hunting MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean about 1,038 miles northwest of Perth.
Mr Patel said: "We built them with a design margin of about ten per cent so we think they're going to go a few days longer than thirty.
"After that it's bonus time and the batteries are going to start to degrade.
"We're in that period right now so it could be a matter of days.
"We can get a very faint signal [in the lab] at 40 days but you have to be right on top of the unit to hear it at 40 days."
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