With no new signals, Aussie PM sees long jet hunt
Source: AP-Excite
By MARGIE MASON
PERTH, Australia (AP) - With no new underwater signals detected, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Saturday that the massive search for the missing Malaysian jet would likely continue "for a long time," with electronic transmissions from the plane's black boxes fading fast.
Abbott appeared to couch his comments from a day earlier while on a visit to China, where he met with President Xi Jinping. He said Friday that he was "very confident" signals heard by an Australian ship towing a U.S. Navy device that detects flight recorder pings were coming from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777's black boxes.
He continued to express this belief Saturday, but added that the job of finding the plane, which disappeared March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, remained arduous. Recovering the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders is essential for investigators to try to piece together what happened to Flight 370.
"No one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us," he said on the last day of his China trip.
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, center, is questioned by a Chinese TV reporter about the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 after a press conference at a hotel in Beijing, China Saturday, April 12, 2014. With no new underwater signals detected, the search for the missing Malaysian passenger jet resumed Saturday in a race against time to find its dying black boxes five weeks after families first learned their loved ones never arrived at their destination. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
