The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will probably continue for "a long time", Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has warned, one day after voicing confidence that signals from the black box had been detected.
The Australian-led search for the Boeing 777, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is racing to gather as many signals as possible to determine an exact resting place before a submersible is sent down to find wreckage.
"We do have a high degree of confidence the transmissions we have been picking up are from flight MH370," Mr Abbott said on the last day of his visit to China.
But "no one should under-estimate the difficulties of the task ahead of us," he added in a press conference broadcast live on Sky television.
"Yes we have very considerably narrowed down the search area but trying to locate anything 4.5 kilometres beneath the surface of the ocean about a thousand kilometres from land is a massive, massive task and it is likely to continue for a long time to come," Mr Abbott said.
12/04/14 The Telegraph, UK
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The Australian-led search for the Boeing 777, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is racing to gather as many signals as possible to determine an exact resting place before a submersible is sent down to find wreckage.
"We do have a high degree of confidence the transmissions we have been picking up are from flight MH370," Mr Abbott said on the last day of his visit to China.
But "no one should under-estimate the difficulties of the task ahead of us," he added in a press conference broadcast live on Sky television.
"Yes we have very considerably narrowed down the search area but trying to locate anything 4.5 kilometres beneath the surface of the ocean about a thousand kilometres from land is a massive, massive task and it is likely to continue for a long time to come," Mr Abbott said.
12/04/14 The Telegraph, UK
