Frantic Search Goes on for Flight 370’s Black Boxes
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Nick Perry – Pool/Getty Images(PERTH, Australia) — At least two dozen planes and ships scrambled over an area of the Indian Ocean Tuesday where two pings from what might have come from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s black boxes were detected two days ago but nothing since then.
The searchers are in a race against time because the boxes’ batteries could run out within days or even hours. It’s been one month since the plane with 239 people on board vanished into thin air on its way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing.
While hopes of finding Flight 370 have been raised and then dashed before, the two long sounds picked up by the Australian vessel, Ocean Shield, are by far the most promising sign yet that some section of the plane and perhaps human remains might be found.
There are no assurances that the pings heard over the weekend came from the Malaysian airliner although audio experts believe that the likelihood of another source other than the flight recorders is slight.
Even so, the odds are still working against searchers in their mission to locate wreckage from the Boeing 777 in the vast, deep expanse of the Indian Ocean.
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