‘Pings silent in hunt for Malaysia jet’

Search teams looking for the missing Malaysian plane in the Indian Ocean fear the aircraft’s flight recorders may have run out of battery.

Search crews say they have not been able to detect any new acoustic signal that could be from the Boeing 777’s black box.

The last transmissions were detected on Tuesday. The battery of a black box usually lasts for one month.

Eleven planes and 14 ships are trying to pinpoint the source of the signals before sending down a robot to look for wreckage.

This is while the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling nearly 57,506 square kilometers on Sunday. The search will be focused on areas approximately 2200 kilometers northwest of Perth.

The latest disappointing development came after reports surfaced saying the flight’s co-pilot made a ‘desperate’ cell phone call before the plane vanished on March 8.

Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, used his phone as the doomed Boeing 777 flew low over the Malaysian city of Penang.

“The telco’s (telecommunications company’s) tower established the call that he was trying to make. On why the call was cut off, it was likely because the aircraft was fast moving away from the tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one,” local Malaysia media outlets quoted soruces as saying.

The Malaysian aircraft disappeared five weeks ago on a flight en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Flight MH370 with 239 passengers and crew vanished from radar screens early on March 8, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on a scheduled flight to Beijing. At least 150 Chinese citizens were on board the missing plane.

No debris from the plane has been found yet.

JR/SL

 

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