Flight 370: Searchers Detect Signals as Black Box Batteries Near Their End

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Flight 370: Searchers Detect Signals as Black Box Batteries Near Their End
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An Australian navy ship in the Indian Ocean has detected signals that are consistent with those from an airplane's black box. Authorities say it is their "most promising" lead so far in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (http://mashable.com/category/malaysia-airlines/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

The ship is towing a device called a pinger locator, which detected two signals on Monday. The first lasted two hours and 20 minutes, and the second lasted for 13 minutes. On the latter, two distinct signals were audible, which would be consistent with a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, said Malaysia's Minister of Defense Hishammuddin Hussein. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/07/malaysia-plane-black-box-signal/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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