Missing Malaysian Airlines flight
Australian PM Tony Abbott 'very confident' search teams have located the black box from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
"We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident the signals are from the black box," he said during a visit to Beijing, China.
'Very confident': Tony Abbott (Image: Getty Images)
The Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, has said he is "very confident" that signals picked up by search teams in the Indian Ocean were from missing Flight MH370's black box.
During a visit to Beijing, China, he told the the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident the signals are from the black box."
A fifth signal was detected by search crews on Friday.
The signals will eventually allow them to determine an exact resting place for the downed Boeing 777.
They will then send down a submersible vehicle to plumb the depths of the ocean for the black box.
The 'pings' emitted by Flight MH370's black box are soon expected to fade, more than a month after the plane, which was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, disappeared on March 8.