MH370 PLANE WRECKAGE TO BE FOUND IN DAYS: SEARCH CHIEF

Perth, 9 Jumadil Akhir 1435/9 April 2014 (MINA) – The head of teams hunting for missing Malaysian plane says they are hopeful to find wreckage of Flight MH370 within days, Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Wednesday.

“Hopefully with lots of transmissions we’ll have a tight, small area and hopefully in a matter of days we’ll be able to find something on the bottom that might confirm that this is the last resting place of MH370,” said Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston on Wednesday.

The Australian vessel Ocean Shield has so far detected four transmissions. It is using US navy equipment to listen to signals emitted by the plane’s black box recorders in waters west of the Australian city of Perth.

Ocean Shield along 13 other vessels and more than a dozen planes are searching an area where the sea depth reaches 4,500 meters.

Houston also said that the vessel has located signals on Tuesday again, the first time for five minutes and 32 second and the second time for about seven minutes.

The “signals will assist in better defining a reduced and much more manageable search area on the ocean floor,” he added.

The search for the plane has entered a crucial stage as the black box recorders’ batteries are expiring or even have expired.

The Malaysia Airlines jet, carrying 239 people including 153 Chinese nationals, went missing on March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The new development came after a Chinese vessel said it had twice detected a pulse signal in an area in the Indian Ocean and an Australian ship has also investigated a possible third signal elsewhere in the search zone in the Indian Ocean. (T/E01/IR)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)