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Malaysia Flight 370: 'We're throwing everything at this difficult, complex task'
By Ed Payne and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
updated 9:09 AM EDT, Tue April 8, 2014

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

'Pinger signals' not heard for days
updated 9:09 AM EDT, Tue April 8, 2014

Authorities hunting MH370 face days of intense searching to locate its "black boxes" before their batteries die.

More pings raise more questions

updated 6:21 PM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014

Almost a month after Flight 370 disappeared, searchers say pulse signals detected in the Indian Ocean provide the best hope so far.

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Could the pings be from MH370?

updated 9:34 PM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Authorities reduce the size of the search area Some say batteries pow ering the plane's pingers could last longer than 30 days "I am still hoping for a miracle to happen," a passenger's husband says

(CNN) -- The pulses that an Australian navy ship detected over the weekend from a remote location in the Indian Ocean have not been picked up since, but authorities are not letting that deter their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. "We have at least several days of intense actions ahead of us," Australian Defense Minister David Johnston told reporters Tuesday. "We're throwing everything at this difficult, complex task." Investigators hope the signals were from locator beacons that were attached to the data and voice recorders that were stored in the tail of the Boeing 777-200ER when it disappeared from radar screens on March 8. Buoyed by the hope that they're closing in on the beacons, they reduced the search area Tuesday. Their current focus is 30,000 square miles (more than 77,500 square kilometers) of the Indian Ocean, about 1,400 miles (2,250 kilometers) northwest of Perth. That's about a third of the size of the previous search zone. "Instead of looking at an area the size of Texas, we're now looking in an area the size of Houston," aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas told CNN. Time, however, is looming as a factor. The batteries powering the beacons, which are designed to emit signals when submerged in salt water, are certified to last 30 days.

CNN's Matthew Chance gives us the latest in the search for MH370 in the Indian Ocean.

Underwater search: Next steps

updated 8:12 AM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014

The pings detected by an Australian navy ship crew in the southern Indian Ocean have renew ed hopes.

Did they find the black boxes?

updated 10:15 PM EDT, Sun April 6, 2014

Did searchers make the discovery w e've all been w aiting for? Here are four reasons to feel hopeful -- and six reasons w hy w e shouldn't.

Search timeline
updated 5:44 AM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014

Hear possible 'ping' detected in search

The discovery of a pulse signal in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 marks yet another potential breakthrough.

What if the pingers die?

updated 7:23 AM EDT, Sat April 5, 2014

Photos: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The pinger batteries are not guaranteed to w ork for more than 30 days, and it's already been about a month since the plane w ent missing.

Tuesday marks day 32.

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Experts have said the batteries could last longer if they were fully charged when the plane disappeared while carrying 239 people on a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.

Could the pings be a false alarm?

updated 12:46 PM EDT, Sat April 5, 2014

What you need to know about a black box

"We need to continue ... for several days right up to when the point at which there's absolutely no doubt that the pinger batteries will have expired," said retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the chief of the Australian agency coordinating the search. Retired Royal Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Kay predicted the search for the pingers would continue for another week and a half.

A Chinese ship has detected a pulse signal consistent w ith the missing plane's black box frequency. Still, experts exercise caution.

Relatives cautiously wait

updated 5:53 AM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014

The possibility of closure for relatives of the passengers and crew may have emerged in the form of an unconfirmed pulse signal.

Up to 14 planes in search for Flight 370

"We know that the batteries can last up to 40 days," Kay told CNN. "If I was Angus Houston, I would be putting the search out to at least 42, 43 (days) to make absolutely sure that the batteries had failed." The race against time is the "Number one challenge" searchers face, U.S. Navy Cmdr. William Marks told CNN. "We haven't quit since we initially heard these signals," he said. "We've been going continuously around the clock and we haven't been able to reacquire them." Searchers are still scouring the waters, but their optimism is "more cautious" now, he said. "As hours pass," he said, "our optimism is fading away, ever so slightly." What happens after the Malaysian plane's pingers die? Major challenges But the search area still presents major challenges. The location is deep, and a cyclone that packed wind speeds of more than 160 mph churned through the area two weeks ago, when crews were focused elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. In doing so, it would have further spread any debris.
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updated 9:26 PM EDT, Sun April 6, 2014

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updated 8:37 AM EDT, Wed April 2, 2014

Jim Clancy runs dow n the big questions surrounding how technology and security could help prevent another airline mystery.

Airline pushes more security

updated 5:17 PM EDT, Wed April 2, 2014

After Flight 370, Malaysia Airlines is emphasizing cockpit security. We hear from aviation experts Miles O'Brien, David Soucie on CNN.

6 missteps in the investigation

updated 12:13 AM EDT, Wed April 2, 2014

Malaysian officials coordinating the search have been battered by criticism that they have mishandled the investigation.

"This was an area that looked like a washing machine in the first place, but now we know it was even worse than that," CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. But Tuesday's weather was calm, with no major systems near where the pings were detected, said CNN meteorologist Sherri Pugh.

Ocean Shield: A mission of hope

updated 9:32 AM EDT, Tue April 1, 2014

Docked at the largest naval base in Western Australia is a ship w ith the w eight of the w orld resting on the shoulders of its 30-member crew .

Tracking Malaysian gov't's mixed messages

Four reasons to believe; six reasons to doubt Consistent signals Cheers erupted Saturday when the team aboard Australia's Ocean Shield first detected a possible signal from one of the plane's recorders.
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The Australian ship is equipped with two key pieces of U.S. equipment to scan the water for signs of the plane: a towed pinger locator and a Bluefin-21 underwater vehicle. The first detection continued for more than two hours; the second for about 13 minutes.
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They w ere headed to Beijing for their honeymoon. They, along w ith 237 other people aboard, never arrived.

The signals, detected about 1,750 kilometers (1,100 miles) northwest of Perth, Australia, were consistent with those sent by a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder,

Instagram photos by CNN teams

updated 12:00 AM EDT, Tue April 8, 2014

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Houston said. They were heard in seawater about 4,500 meters (14,800 feet) deep. "The audible signal sounds to me just like an emergency locator beacon," Houston said. "We are encouraged that we are very close to where we need to be." If the signals are heard again, searchers could deploy an underwater drone to take photos to determine whether they do indeed mean the discovery of the so-called black boxes. That process could take more than a week.
Brow se through photos taken by CNN journalists covering the missing Flight 370 story.

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"Until we have stopped the pinger search, we will not deploy the submersible," Houston said. "We will not deploy it unless we get another transmission in which we'll probably have a better idea of what's down there." Next steps in underwater search Pulses detected Teams are also still investigating pulses detected Friday and Saturday by a Chinese ship about 600 kilometers (375 miles) southwest of where the Ocean Shield is searching. The signals detected by the Chinese weren't as sustained as those picked up by the Ocean Shield, and the Chinese vessel's detection gear isn't thought to be as advanced as the U.S. pinger locator. Houston said Monday that they were probably separate events. Some friends and relatives of passengers said they were keeping their hopes in check. "Until they physically locate the bulk of the plane with the black box intact and passenger bodies, I won't believe it," said Sarah Bajc, the partner of American passenger Philip Wood. At a candlelight vigil in Beijing on Monday night, some relatives sobbed and others bowed their heads. "If the plane is there, it's there. We can't change it," the husband of one passenger said. "But I am still hoping for a miracle to happen." Timeline: Leads in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 weave drama Lucrative China-Malaysia relations not derailed by search for MH370 Wife of Flight 370 passenger: 'I needed to know they were looking for Pauly'
CNN's Tom Watkins, Jethro Mullen, Matthew Chance, David Molko, Will Ripley, Judy Kw on, Ed Payne and Mitra Mobasherat and journalist Ivy Sam also contributed to this report.

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