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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Race against time to find black box recorder before batteries run out



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Leading Seaman Aircrewman Joel Young looks out from Tiger75, an S-70B-2 Seahawk helicopter, after it launched from the Australian Navy ship the HMAS Toowoomba as it continues the search in the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, in this picture released by the Australian Defence Force April 4, 2014
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Crews searching for the missing flight have launched an underwater hunt just days before cockpit recorder is expected to stop transmitting signals

 
A high-tech US Navy pinger locater has been deployed in the race against time to find the black box from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, just days before its batteries are due to run out.
Two ships with locater abilities will search an underwater path. The Australian navy ship Ocean Shield, which is pulling the ping locater and the British navy's HMS Echo, which has underwater search gear on board, will converge along a 240-kilometer (150-mile) track.
The pingers on the plane’s black box transmit signals for about 30 days after a crash – giving search teams just days to find the recorder and potentially discover what happened to the jetliner, which disappeared on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
On Monday it will be 30 days since the jetliner vanished. Up to 14 planes and nine ships will join the search which resumed today in the southern Indian Ocean.
Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the head of the Joint Agencies Coordination Centre (JACC) told reporters in Perth the underwater search will commence in the area where the aircraft is most likely to have entered the water.
The underwater search area has been determined on the basis of the analysis of satellite data.
The Boeing 777 was briefly picked up on military radar on the other side of Malaysia and analysis of subsequent hourly electronic "handshakes" exchanged with a satellite led investigators to conclude the plane crashed far off the west Australian coast hours later.

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