In a significant lead to find MH370, the towed pinger locator deployed from Australian navy ship HMAS Ocean Shield has detected signa...
According to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in Perth, which is spearheading the search, two separate signal detections have occurred 1,650 kilometres northwest of Perth within the northern part of the defined search area. The first detection was held for approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. HMAS Ocean Shield then lost contact before conducting a turn and attempting to re-acquire the signal.
The second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes, with two distinct pinger returns audible.
Retired Australian Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who is heading the JACC said the signals detected were consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.
Separately, the Chinese Navy Ship Haixun 01 has also detected similar signals twice. British Navy Ship HMS Echo is en route to assist the Chinese vessel Haixun 01.
