The month-long search for the missing Malaysian jetliner MH370 reached to a critical stage as the investigators are concerned with the status of the black box recorder batteries which were either dying or already had died.
The black boxes are most important piece of evidence on board as it records cockpit data and may provide answers about what happened to that plane.
Investigators have been looking for the black box of that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to understand exactly what had happened on March 8 when it had gone missing just after it took off from Kuala Lumpur at 00:41 a.m. with 239 passengers and 12 crew members. The plane was supposed to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. but never reached there.
“The locator beacon has a shelf life of 30 days and we are now passed that time and as a consequence there is a chance that the locator beacon is about to cease transmission, or has ceased transmission,” Angus Houston, head of the Australian search group told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.
As the families of unfortunate passengers and crew members are still eagerly waiting for the logical conclusion, the authorities are now planning for sending a robotic search vehicle to the deep into the Indian Ocean to hunt wreckage of missing MH370 on the sea floor.
Meanwhile after US Navy received two “ping” signals from about 1,680 km northwest of Perth and a Chinese vessel has confirmed of getting “ping” signal from 300 nautical miles from the latest signals, search team led by Australia has said that they are hopeful of cracking the mystery.
“We are pretty confident that we are in the right area because the calculations of the search area are right where we are picking up these transmissions,” Houston said.
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