Search and rescue officials are ‘very confident’ signals detected deep beneath the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Australia’s prime minister has said.
Authorities scouring one of the remotest corners of the planet for the Boeing 777 have picked up a series of ‘pings’ since Saturday.
Speaking in Shanghai, China, Tony Abbott said he believes the fading signals are from the plane’s black boxes.
‘[The search area] has been very much narrowed down because we’ve now had a series of detections, some for quite a long period of time,’ Mr Abbott said.
‘Nevertheless, we’re getting to the stage where we are very confident [the signal] is the black box is starting to fade.
‘We are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signal finally expires.’
The black boxes from flight MH370 could help solve the mystery of why the plane veered so far off course when it vanished on March 8 on a trip from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, with 239 people on board.
The batteries in the black boxes have already reached the end of their 30-day expected life, making efforts to swiftly locate them on the murky ocean floor all the more critical
