Beating the Clock

First one “ping”, then another.

It’s a race against time to find the black box of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet before the flight recorder’s batteries run out in the next few hours.

As Australia and China report picking up pinger signals in the Indian Ocean, Anish Patel, President of Dukane Seacom, the company which manufactures the beacon, says they could very well be coming from the black box of Flight 370.

Chinese search vessels are trying to trace signals emitted by the recorder before it goes silent. Haixun 01, briefly reported hearing signals over the weekend in this remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.

Both sounds came from near where investigators think the plane went down on March 8 in the Indian Ocean.

Also on Sunday, the Australian defense ship Ocean Field detected a separate acoustic signal. But that one came from a different part of the vast search area, some 300 nautical miles away.