Submarine Deployed as Malaysian Jet Black Box Goes Quiet
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Investigators hunting for the missing Malaysian Air jet will deploy an underwater vessel to scan the ocean floor as the absence of new signals suggests the black boxes have run out of power.
Australian ship Ocean Shield will send the Bluefin-21 to search in the area where the pings were heard, Angus Houston, who heads Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre, said in Perth today. The boat will stop using the towed pinger locator and instead rely on the submersible to find debris as the search stretches into a 38th day.