Searchers for Malaysian Air Flight 370 said objects retrieved from the Indian Ocean are rubbish with no evidence they are related to the missing plane as the hunt for the jetliner enters its fourth week.
The items recovered were “fishing equipment and flotsam,” Andrea Hayward-Maher, a spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, said by phone today. It was the first time that material had been picked up.
Search activities today involve eight ships and 10 aircraft in the revised zone, the Australian agency said in an update. The HMAS Toowoomba frigate left Perth late yesterday and should arrive at the search area in about three days while the vessel Ocean Shield is being fitted with an autonomous underwater vehicle and equipment to detect the black-box recorder.
Time may be running out as the battery-powered beacons that help locate the black boxes on the Boeing Co. (BA)’s 777 last about 30 days. The latest lead in the search was based on radar and performance data as the airliner flew between the South China Sea and Malacca Strait, authorities said. It shows the plane moved faster, using more fuel, and may not have crashed as far south as estimated earlier.
30/03/14 Tracy Withers/Bloomberg
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The items recovered were “fishing equipment and flotsam,” Andrea Hayward-Maher, a spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, said by phone today. It was the first time that material had been picked up.
Search activities today involve eight ships and 10 aircraft in the revised zone, the Australian agency said in an update. The HMAS Toowoomba frigate left Perth late yesterday and should arrive at the search area in about three days while the vessel Ocean Shield is being fitted with an autonomous underwater vehicle and equipment to detect the black-box recorder.
Time may be running out as the battery-powered beacons that help locate the black boxes on the Boeing Co. (BA)’s 777 last about 30 days. The latest lead in the search was based on radar and performance data as the airliner flew between the South China Sea and Malacca Strait, authorities said. It shows the plane moved faster, using more fuel, and may not have crashed as far south as estimated earlier.
30/03/14 Tracy Withers/Bloomberg
