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SYDNEY, Australia — The deep-sea underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed overnight with a remote-controlled submersible scouring the seabed in an area where searchers still believe they detected acoustic signals from the jet’s flight data recorders. SYDNEY, Australia — The deep-sea underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed overnight on Thursday with a remote-controlled submersible scouring the seabed in an area where searchers still believe they detected acoustic signals from the jet’s flight data recorders.
The Chinese survey ship Zhu Kezhen will also begin mapping the ocean floor ahead of commercial operators that will use towed side-scan sonar equipment when they join the search to try to locate debris from the missing jet. A Chinese survey ship, Zhu Kezhen, will also begin mapping the ocean floor before commercial operators that will use towed side-scan sonar equipment when they join the search to try to locate debris from the missing jet.
The Boeing 777 veered off course on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people onboard. No trace of the jet has been found, despite a surface search that lasted almost two months before the authorities changed course, reviewing all their data and beginning a more arduous search of the seafloor in an area more than 500 miles off the northwest coast of Australia.The Boeing 777 veered off course on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people onboard. No trace of the jet has been found, despite a surface search that lasted almost two months before the authorities changed course, reviewing all their data and beginning a more arduous search of the seafloor in an area more than 500 miles off the northwest coast of Australia.
The search coordinator, Angus Houston, said he was confident the best information on the whereabouts of the plane remained the seven pings, or electronic handshakes, transmitted before the jet disappeared from radar screens. The global satellite communications company Inmarsat said it would soon publish a full record of the communications received from the plane the day it disappeared. The search coordinator, Angus Houston, said he was confident that the best information on the whereabouts of the plane remained the seven pings, or electronic handshakes, transmitted before the jet disappeared from radar screens. Inmarsat, a global satellite communications company, said it would soon publish a full record of the communications received from the plane the day it disappeared.
“The work that has been done by the satellite subgroup, the analysis of the pings, the manual handshakes between aircraft and satellite and ground station, I think all of that is very relevant to finding the right areas to be searching in,” Mr. Houston said in a televised interview. He said he was absolutely certain “that the aircraft turned left out of the Malacca Strait and that we are looking in the right broad area — the area defined by the arc created from the seventh ping.”“The work that has been done by the satellite subgroup, the analysis of the pings, the manual handshakes between aircraft and satellite and ground station, I think all of that is very relevant to finding the right areas to be searching in,” Mr. Houston said in a televised interview. He said he was absolutely certain “that the aircraft turned left out of the Malacca Strait and that we are looking in the right broad area — the area defined by the arc created from the seventh ping.”
The remote-controlled submersible, the Bluefin-21, had searched what was believed to be the likely crash zone, covering about 150 square miles of the ocean floor at depths of close to 14,800 feet, when searchers were forced to bring it to the surface because of equipment failure. That search centered around an area where the Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield had detected two sets of acoustic pings, on April 5 and 8, thought to have come from the aircraft’s black boxes before the batteries in the data recorders expired. The remote-controlled submersible, the Bluefin-21, had searched what was believed to be the likely crash zone, covering about 150 square miles of the ocean floor at depths of close to 14,800 feet, when searchers were forced to bring it to the surface because of equipment failure. That search centered on an area where an Australian naval vessel, Ocean Shield, had detected two sets of acoustic pings, on April 5 and 8, thought to have come from the aircraft’s black boxes before the batteries in the data recorders expired.
“Over the next week, Bluefin-21 will search the remaining areas in the vicinity of the acoustic signals detected in early April by the towed pinger locator deployed from Ocean Shield that are within its depth operating limits,” the agency said in a statement. “This continues the process that will ultimately enable the search team to discount or confirm the area of the acoustic signals as the final resting place” of the flight. “Over the next week, Bluefin-21 will search the remaining areas in the vicinity of the acoustic signals detected in early April by the towed pinger locator deployed from Ocean Shield that are within its depth operating limits,” the Joint Agency Coordination Center, the Australian agency in charge of the search, said in a statement. “This continues the process that will ultimately enable the search team to discount or confirm the area of the acoustic signals as the final resting place” of the flight.
The agency said Australia’s defense force and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau were working with Chinese units to conduct the deepwater survey. The Chinese ship Haixun 01 would return to the search zone to transport survey data back to port at Fremantle, in the state of Western Australia, where it would be processed. The agency said Australia’s defense force and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau were working with Chinese units to conduct the deep-water survey. A Chinese ship, Haixun 01, will return to the search zone to transport survey data back to port at Fremantle, in the state of Western Australia, where it will be processed.
Mr. Houston said it was imperative that Australia “be involved to the maximum extent possible to try and find the aircraft,” adding later that there would be “some sharing of the burden associated with those costs.” Mr. Houston said it was imperative that Australia “be involved to the maximum extent possible to try and find the aircraft,” adding that there would be “some sharing of the burden associated with those costs.”
“But the focus must be on continuing the search and doing the oceanographic survey, the bathymetric survey, to enable the deepwater search along the defined search area,” he said. “There is still a long way to go in the search.” “But the focus must be on continuing the search and doing the oceanographic survey, the bathymetric survey, to enable the deep-water search along the defined search area,” he said. “There is still a long way to go in the search.”