Perth: Australia is dispatching a ship with black-box detecting capabilities to aid in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet on Monday. It comes as Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced there was no time limit on the search for MH370. He said the world deserved to know what happened to the flight which crashed in the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board.
The 4th week of search begins with some hopes tarnished after debris sighted turned out to be random sea junk such as fishing gear.
Captain Mark Matthews from the US Navy said the crash site must first be narrowed down to allow any pings from the recorder to be located. With MH370 vanishing on March 8 and a black box usually giving off signals for 30 days there are fears it could already be too late with Ocean Shield taking up to three days to get to the area. However, Matthews said the ‘pinger’ could last up to 15 days longer than that.
(With AFP inputs)