The Australian search vessel Ocean Shield has picked up two new ‘ping’ signals in the past 24 hours, in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
The first ‘ping’ lasted five minutes and 32 seconds, while the second signal burst lasted seven minutes, said Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) head and former Air Chief Marshall Angus Houton at a press conference in Perth today.
“What we are picking up is a great lead. But we have got to visually acquire it before we can say that is it the final resting place of the flight MH370,” he said.
In total, there have been four detected transmissions, each of which seems to be consistent with those coming from an aircraft’s black box data recorder. The first two were detected by the Chinese ship Haixun 01 and the Ocean Shield on April 5.
