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Fingers and toes crossed this is something! I'm kinda expecting them to say it was a dolphin or something though.
(CNN) -- A Chinese patrol ship looking for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean discovered Saturday a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5 kHz, state news agency Xinhua reported.
"That is the standard beacon frequency" for both so-called black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, said Anish Patel, president of pinger manufacturer Dukane Seacom.
"They're identical."
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/05/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
April 05, 2014 9:24PM
We certainly are in the best known location at this stage and doing the best we can to locate either pinger, said Commander Lybrand, who said there would be no mistaking the sound of the black boxes.
It will be very obvious if theres a pinger, he said. It doesnt look like biologics. Its got a very specific one second (ping) sequence.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...-mh370-continues/story-fnizu68q-1226875648133
The report says a black box detector deployed by the vessel, Haixun 01, picked up a signal at 37.5Hz per second Saturday at around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude.
SkyNews currently reporting that the "latitude and longitude" accompanied with this report (which they are crediting to an AP report that I am unable to find as of yet) does "not match" the current search areas. I am actively searching for online sources backing up these reports...
The update has yet to be confirmed by authorities.
Radar expert Professor David Stupples told Sky News: "If there has been a signal received, it could be the black box or it could be something extraneous.
"I don't know anything (else) that puts out the 37.5kHz signal."
http://news.sky.com/story/1237620/missing-plane-ship-detects-signal-in-ocean
The president of pinger manufacturer Dukane Seacom has confirmed that this is the “standard beacon frequency” of both black boxes on MH370 — the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder.
However, experts have cautioned that the same signal could come from “a variety of things”.
“It could be a false signal,” oceanographer Simon Boxall told CNN. “We’ve had a lot of red herrings, hyperbole on this whole search.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/re...mh370s-black-box/story-fniztvne-1226875724698