Official says robotic submarine will be used in search for jet
Search crews will for the first time send a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to try to determine whether underwater signals detected by sound-locating equipment are from the missing Malaysian jet’s black boxes, the leader of the search effort said.
Ocean debris left by jet depends on angle, speed
Did the missing Malaysian jet plunge into the ocean at a steep angle, leaving virtually no debris on the surface? Did it come in flat, clip a wave and cartwheel into pieces? Or did it break up in midair, sending chunks tumbling down over a wide swath of water?
Possible signals from black boxes heard
Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said today, dubbing it “a most promising lead” in the month-long hunt for the vanished plane.
Race is on to find airliner’s black boxes
Time is running out to find the crucial keys that could solve the mystery of how and why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down.