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| Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Black boxes must be found by April before they stop emitting locator pings | Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Black boxes must be found by April before they stop emitting locator pings |
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| Crews searching for Missing Flight MH370 have around two weeks to find the aircraft’s pair of black boxes before they stop emitting locator pings. | Crews searching for Missing Flight MH370 have around two weeks to find the aircraft’s pair of black boxes before they stop emitting locator pings. |
| The boxes, designed to 'ping' for at least 30 days, contain sounds recorded in the cockpit and data on the plane's performance and flight path that could help answer why it diverted sharply west from its overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on 8 March. | |
| An Australian warship, The Ocean Shield, was carrying a US device that detects "pings" from the flight recorders, and was expected to leave Perth on Monday for the search zone - a trip that will take three to four days. | |
| The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search, said it would first conduct sea trials afternoon to test the search equipment on board. | The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search, said it would first conduct sea trials afternoon to test the search equipment on board. |
| As the deadline approaches, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday: "This is an extraordinarily difficult exercise. | |
| "We are searching a vast area of ocean and we are working on quite limited information," Abbott said, adding that world-leading experts and all the latest technological is being applied to the task. | |
| He continued: "until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft and then do the regression analysis that might tell us where the aircraft went into the ocean. If this mystery is solvable, we will solve it," he said. | |
| "We owe it to everyone to do whatever we reasonably can and we can keep searching for quite some time to come." he added. | |
| On Monday, ten planes were headed to the search area around 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) west of Australia, where 10 ships were already scouring for wreckage. | On Monday, ten planes were headed to the search area around 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) west of Australia, where 10 ships were already scouring for wreckage. |
| Around 100 personnel in the air and 1,000 sailors were involved in Monday's hunt, but their search may be hindered by low clouds and rain. | Around 100 personnel in the air and 1,000 sailors were involved in Monday's hunt, but their search may be hindered by low clouds and rain. |
| After several days of searching in the area, neither ships nor aircraft have found debris that can be linked to the flight, officials say. | After several days of searching in the area, neither ships nor aircraft have found debris that can be linked to the flight, officials say. |
| Since the aircraft disappeared in early March, experts have sifted through radar and satellite data, and gradually moved the hunt from seas off of Vietnam, to areas west of Malaysia and Indonesia, and then to several areas west of Australia. | Since the aircraft disappeared in early March, experts have sifted through radar and satellite data, and gradually moved the hunt from seas off of Vietnam, to areas west of Malaysia and Indonesia, and then to several areas west of Australia. |
| Former Australian Defense Chief Angus Houston is tasked with heading the new Joint Agency Coordination Center, and from Monday which will oversee communication with international agencies involved in the search, | Former Australian Defense Chief Angus Houston is tasked with heading the new Joint Agency Coordination Center, and from Monday which will oversee communication with international agencies involved in the search, |
| The Perth-based center will position Australia to shoulder more of Malaysia's coordination responsibilities as the search continues indefinitely. | The Perth-based center will position Australia to shoulder more of Malaysia's coordination responsibilities as the search continues indefinitely. |
| He will also play a prime coordination role when victims' families travel to Australia in the weeks ahead. | He will also play a prime coordination role when victims' families travel to Australia in the weeks ahead. |
| The search area remains vast, so investigators are hoping to first find debris floating on the ocean surface that will help them calculate where the plane crashed into the water. | The search area remains vast, so investigators are hoping to first find debris floating on the ocean surface that will help them calculate where the plane crashed into the water. |
| Meanwhile, several dozen Chinese relatives of Flight 370 passengers visited a Buddhist temple near Kuala Lumpur on Monday to pray for their loved ones, following a text sent by the Malaysian authorities to passengers' family members on 24 March saying there was no hope that anyone survived. | Meanwhile, several dozen Chinese relatives of Flight 370 passengers visited a Buddhist temple near Kuala Lumpur on Monday to pray for their loved ones, following a text sent by the Malaysian authorities to passengers' family members on 24 March saying there was no hope that anyone survived. |
| "You are not alone," one nun told the congregation, adding: "you have the whole world's love, including Malaysia's." | |
| Additional reporting by AP | Additional reporting by AP |