Malaysia plane MH370: Pinger locators deployed in search

[alp227]

Source: BBC

Search teams have begun using towed pinger locators to hunt for the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Two ships with the locator capabilities will search a 240km (150 mile) underwater path, in the hope of recovering the plane's data recorder.

Up to 14 planes and nine ships will also search for MH370 on Friday.

It disappeared on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was carrying 239 people.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26849818

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Getting a little late for that, unfortunately.

Those locators only last about 30 days. Assuming they survived at all.

[greyl]

2. That didn't take long at all. nt

[nora7]

3. plane

plane is somewhere in deep sea in yoga position , you won't find until it's some parts come up .

[Sognefjord]

4. They could as well start using hypnosis of anyone connected with this ill-fated flight.

[Omaha Steve]

5. 2 ships hunt for black boxes from missing jetliner

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140404/DACV747O0.html

By NICK PERRY

PERTH, Australia (AP) - Two ships with sophisticated equipment for searching underwater zeroed in Friday on a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean in a desperate hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet's black boxes, whose batteries will soon run out.

An arduous weeks-long hunt has not turned up a single piece of wreckage, which could have led the searchers to the plane and eventually to its black boxes containing key information about the flight. But the searchers have apparently decided to make a direct attempt to find the devices, whose batteries last about a month.


In this Sunday, March 30, 2014 file photo, the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield lies docked at naval base HMAS Stirling while being fitted with a towed pinger locator to aid in her roll in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Perth, Australia. Crews searching for the jet launched a targeted underwater hunt on Friday, April 4 for the plane's black boxes along a stretch of remote ocean, with just days left before the devices' batteries are expected to run out. The Ocean Shield, which is dragging a towed pinger locator from the U.S. Navy, and the British navy's HMS Echo, which has underwater search gear on board, will converge along a 240-kilometer (150-mile) track in a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)


Two ships with equipment that can hear the black boxes' pings were slowly making their way along a 240-kilometer (150-mile) route that investigators are hoping may be close to the spot Flight 370 entered the water after it vanished March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.

But the head of the joint agency coordinating the search acknowledged that the search area was essentially just a best guess - and noted that time was running out for search crews to find the coveted data recorders.

FULL story at link.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Maybe they will consider instaling Destress radio beacons on all commercial aircraft

I thought that was a given, but hey the airlines are so strapped for cash that they don't even want to serve meals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_locator_transmitter
The Crash Position Indicator is the one I was once serviced in the USAF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Position_Indicator

These black box pingers are strictly audio as radio waves don't work under water- If either of the 2 radio beacons had been on the plane the location of the plane and the black boxes would be known. I wonder how many of these devices could be deployed against the massive cost of the current search?