However, officials have cautioned that the pings, which can be picked up by highly sensitive marine listening devices k**wn as hydrophones — but referred to more colloquially as “pinger locators” — may **t in fact be from the aircraft’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. Instead, they could be from whales or other marine life, officials have said
“False alerts may be experienced from biological sources such as whales or interference from shipping **ise,” the Australian Joint Agency Coordination Center said on April 3. Read more...