Report: Ship detects "pulse" signal in search for jet airliner MH370 - CBS News

PERTH, Australia -- "A Chinese ship involved in the hunt for the missing Malaysian jetliner reported hearing a "pulse signal" Saturday in Indian Ocean waters with the same frequency emitted by the plane's data recorders.

China's official Xinhua News Agency said a black box detector deployed by the ship, Haixun 01, picked up a signal at 37.5 kilohertz (cycles per second). However, Xinhua said it had not yet been determined whether the signal was related to the missing plane, citing the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center.

Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, confirmed that the frequency emitted by Flight 370's black boxes was 37.5 kilohertz.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center -- the Australian government agency coordinating the search -- said Saturday the Haixun's report of electronic pulse signals could not be verified at this time. U.S. officials from the NTSB and FAA were not able to confirm the report, either.

Houston also said the report of a number of white objects on the water's surface about 90 kilometers from the signal detection area could not be confirmed to be related to the missing plane.

The deployment of Royal Australian Air Force assets to the area where the Chinese ship detected the sounds is being considered, Houston said."

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Malaysia Airlines missing plane families dragged away by security; satellite data in Australia could hold plane’s location

news.com.au reports:

"CHAOS has broken out at the media centre for missing flight MH370 after distraught Chinese family members of those on board the plane arrived to protest to Malaysian authorities.

It came just before Malaysian authorities held a press conference where they revealed files were recently deleted from the flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing plane.
Frustration boiled over for the anguished families who have travelled from Beijing in a bid to get more information.

The relatives came to the media centre at the Sama Sama hotel at Kuala Lumpur airport carrying a protest banner.

They were then dragged away by Malaysian security staff to a room with officials, with the area then erupting into chaos.

The protest banner being brandished by the relatives accused the Malaysian government of hiding the truth, wasting time and failing to find the missing jetliner.

A relative of one of the Chinese passengers appears to have been knocked to the ground in a stampede as police tried to stop relatives of family members from speaking to international media.

Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport Hishammuddin Hussein tonight said local and international experts have been recruited to examine the pilot’s flight simulator.

“Some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing,” he said.

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