MH370: Chinese patrol ship detects pulse signal

MH370: Chinese patrol ship detects pulse signal
Haixun 01 records signal with same frequency as that of black box ping as search continues for missing plane
Saturday 5 April 2014 14.49 BST

A Chinese search ship has detected an electronic pulse in an area of the southern Indian Ocean where it is believed the missing Malaysian Airlines plane crashed, state media has announced.

"Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 searching for flight MH370 discovered a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5kHz per second in south Indian Ocean waters Saturday," the official news agency, Xinhua, said. It also reported that a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area.

Anish Patel, president of Dukane Seacom – which has said it made the beacons for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on board MH370 – told CNN the pulse was identical to the standard beacon frequency.

The Haixun 01, one of two Chinese ships in the area, picked up the signal at about 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, Xinhua reported.

"It is yet to be established whether it is related to the missing jet," it said.

China's Liberation Daily reported that three people on board the ship had heard the signals, which had not been recorded because they came suddenly.

The Australian defence minister, David Johnston, said he had not received a report on the signal and warned that it may not be from the plane.

"This is not the first time we have had something that has turned out to be very disappointing," he told ABC television.

The report is the first potentially positive sign in the race against time to find the Malaysian aircraft's black box. But there is as yet no indication of whether the pulse is in fact connected to the plane, and no wreckage has been found in the area despite a massive international hunt.

Experts have warned that the electronic beacons designed to guide searchers to the flight data and cockpit voice recorders will stop emitting signals within the next two weeks, and perhaps even within the next few days, as they run out of power.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/mh370-chinese-patrol-ship-detects-pulse-signal

Lets hope they can locate it again and find where it is coming from.

 Update: ~ 19:30 hrs AEST (approx. 10:30 am GMT/UT) ~ posted the following. Internet is so slo here it could take hours to upload !!!

AFTER earlier speculation about the discovery of the black box (see below..), the PM and the search controllers seemed to take a step back later in the day, to state that they were pretty sure that they had located the black box; and had narrowed the search zone even more..

(I'VE just managed to get back on the internet a few minutes ago !)>

THE folioing was posted at ~ 13:00 hours AEST ~ that was around 4:00 am UT (GMT) ~ it's taken over 8 hours already to upload !   

A "BLACK BOX" has been found in the Indian Ocean earlier today, it has been been reported on radio bulletins down here over the last couple of hours...

STILL to be confirmed where exactly it is from..

THE PM as set to make an announcement with the next hour..

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ABC Australia

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