US Navy Sending Sensitive Equipment to Aid in Malaysia Airline Search

The U.S. Navy said it is sending a black box detector to an area of the southern Indian Ocean to aid in the search of a Malaysia Airlines jet which has been missing for more than two weeks. The U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement Monday that the "Towed Pinger Locator" has highly sensitive listening capability so that if the wreck is located, it can hear the black box pinger down to a depth of about 6,100 meters. Black box is the common term for a plane's flight...

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