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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 16479799" data-attributes="member: 158020"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" />Chinese ship hears pulse signal in south Indian Ocean<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/05/article-2597630-1CDAA93F00000578-511_634x448.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A Chinese patrol ship searching for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight  370 in the southern Indian Ocean discovered Saturday a pulse signal  with a frequency of 37.5 kHz, state news agency Xinhua reported."That is the standard  beacon frequency" for both so-called black boxes -- the cockpit voice  recorder and the flight data recorder, said Anish Patel, president of  pinger manufacturer Dukane Seacom. "They're identical."But experts cautioned that no confirmation had been made that the signal was linked to the missing plane."We are unable to verify  any such information at this point in time," the media office of the  Joint Agency Coordination Centre said in an e-mail."This could be a variety  of things," said oceanographer Simon Boxall, who said the frequency is  used by a variety of instruments."We've had a lot of red  herrings, hyperbole on this whole search," the lecturer in ocean and  earth science at the University of Southampton told CNN. "I'd really  like to see this data confirmed."But, if this proves to be  what investigators have been searching for, "then the possibility of  recovering the plane -- or at least the black boxes -- goes from being  one in a million to almost certain," he said.But, he added, "It could be a false signal."CNN aviation analyst  David Soucie was less skeptical. "This is a pinger," the airplane  accident investigator said. "I've been doing this a lot of years, and I  can't think of anything else it could be."Xinhua said the detector  deployed by the Haixun (pronounced "high shuen") 01 patrol ship picked  up the signal around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east  longitude. "It is yet to be established whether it is related to the  missing jet," it said.The announcement came  nearly a month after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, and on  the same day that the nation's acting transportation minister said three  committees were being formed to tackle the disappearance of the flight.One will tend to the  families of passengers aboard the missing flight, the second will  oversee the investigation team and a third committee will handle the  deployment of assets, said Hishammuddin Hussein.Malaysia will also appoint an independent investigator to lead an investigation team, the acting minister said.The team will include an  airworthiness group, looking at issues such as maintenance records, and  an operations group to examine aspects such as flight recorders and  operations. A medical and human factors team will investigate issues  such as psychology, he said.As well as Malaysia and  Australia, the team will include representatives from China, the United  States, the United Kingdom and France, he said.Hishammuddin also  addressed "unfounded allegations made against Malaysia," which, he said,  "include the extraordinary assertion that Malaysian authorities were  somehow complicit in what happened to MH370." He added, "I should like to state, for the record, that these allegations are completely untrue."Hishammuddin pointed to a  statement from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which says  Malaysia has "done its level best" in its response to an operation that  "is the biggest and most complex we have ever seen."The minister, who had  earlier briefed ASEAN ministers and the United States on the search at a  joint defense forum, thanked the United States for its "unwavering  support" and said the ASEAN ministers had pledged their continued  cooperation.The hunt for physical evidence continues Saturday -- both on the surface of the southern Indian Ocean and deep below it.The British submarine HMS Tireless is now in the search area, Hishammuddin said.Meanwhile, a parallel  search for digital clues on the hard drives of a flight simulator in the  home of one of the pilots turned up nothing conclusive. There was no "we got it" information, a U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN late Friday.There were some  "curious" things, given the situation, the official said. The captain,  Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had programmed several alternate routes into the  simulator, but it appeared he had done so to come up with safe plans of  action in case of emergencies aboard the plane, the official said.The searches appear to be what an experienced and professional pilot would do, the official said.</blockquote>

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