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MH370: PM confident signals are from boxes
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he's very confident that the "pings" that have been heard in the Indian Ocean are from Flight 370's black boxes. "It's been very much narrowed down because we've now had a series of detections, some for quite a long period of time," Abbott said. "Nevertheless, we're getting to the stage where the signal from what we are very confident is the black box is starting to fade. We are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signal finally expires." Earlier, The West Australian aviation editor Geoffrey Thomas set social media alight by tweeting: "Black boxes of MH370 may have been found. PM to make announcement at 11.45am [Perth time, 1.45pm AEST]."
However the Prime Minister made no mention of that fact during a scheduled 1pm press conference, and his staff said there was no conference planned for 1.45pm. A spokeswoman for the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which former Defence chief Angus Houston is heading,said there was no further major announcement scheduled. "There's no further update at this stage," she said. "There's nothing to report." |