A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion from 92 Wing, conducts a low level fly by before dropping stores to HMAS Toowoomba. Photo / AP
No new acoustic signals have been detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Hopes of recovering the aircraft's black box rose significantly in the past week after Australian vessel Ocean Shield detected four signals believed to have come from MH370's all-important flight recorder.
However, the Joint Agency
Coordination Centre (JACC) said this morning that no new signals had been detected in the past 24 hours.
Nine military aircraft, one civil aircraft and 14 ships will continue the hunt for MH370 on Saturday, visually searching an area measuring 41,393 square kilometres about 2,300km northwest of Perth, the JACC said.
The size of the search area again appears to contradict Prime Minister Tony Abbott's recent suggestion that the search area in the Indian Ocean had narrowed.
