Possible MH370 Black Box Pings Heard As Time Runs Out
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Over the last two days an Australian ship searching the Indian Ocean for the missing flight MH370 has detected signals with its towed sonar array that are consistent with those that airplane black boxes make. 
The USS Kidd is resupplied at sea as the search for MH370 continues. (LS2 Karolina Karmowska-Brooks/Wikimedia Commons)
The two signals, lasting two hours and thirteen minutes respectively, have provided for excitement and a renewed sense of urgency by all involved in the search as the batteries which power the signals from the black boxes should have theoretically run out around twelve hours ago.
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“Clearly this is a most promising lead,” Angus Houston told The New York Times, referring to the signals as “probably the best information that we have had” in the search.
There is, however, still a significant amount of work to be done, and officials warned that it may take several days to determine the exact location and source of the signals before a definitive decision can be made as to whether or not the missing Boeing 777 has finally been found.
Searchers will be scrambling to zero-in on the location of the signal before the black box batteries run out and any chance of finding the data recorders, and thus solving the mystery of MH370, might be lost forever in the depths of the Indian Ocean.
Read the full story on The New York Times.
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