Maryland Company Sends Locator to Plane Search

Experts say no one will really know what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 until the black box - the flight recorder - is retrieved.  Time is running out because that flight recorder only emits an audible signal - a ping - for 30 days.  The U.S. Navy has deployed one of its “pinger locators” to the Indian Ocean.  The sound is what it's all about.  The sound coming from black boxes - the flight data recorders that hold the key to what happened aboard Malaysia...

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