plane. renewed reports this morning that a chinese ship searching for missing malaysia flight 370 in the southern indian ocean has picked up a pulse signal. a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz. the same frequency emitted from black boxes. take a listen to what a reporter on the chinese vessel just said. this afternoon, the rescuers have heard the ping signal every second. the signals lasted for one minute and and a half. however, the rescuers say this comes a signal of the frequent is not exclusive for the plane black box. there is a possibility that this kind of frequency is from other equipment. at this moment, aviation analyst.
chinese state news agency xinhua is reporting that a chinese patrol ship searching an area of the south indian ocean has detected a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz per second. so we are, of course, trying to determine, working to determine, as they are, if that pulse is from the pinger of the black box. and we happen to have one here courtesy of g.a. telesis, a company in south florida. guys, if you can take it to it. i want to show where the pinger is. the pinger is in the front of the black box. it s the cylinder. the white cylinder up front here. that is what is emitting the ping, the blue pin 21, tpl and locators are searching for, that battery expected to day, if it held for 30 days, within a few hours of now.
our hopes in that one area yet, but boy i would sent the ships their right now. retired lieutenant colonel michael kay is with us. lieutenant, thank you for being with us. what do you make of the latest information? let me set it here for you. we do have a report from the state news agency in china, xinhua, a chinese patrol ship is detecting a pulse signal at the frequency of 37.5 kilohertz. what do you make of that this morning? look, in a four-week long investigation that has given us absolutely no clues, this is potentially sizable information. from that respect, i think all of the discourse that we re hearing is sensible and objective. what i would say is that if we look at the beginning of the investigation and the way the information was disseminated, i think it could have been done better. now the australians have taken leadership on the international
signal in the south indian ocean. that s according to a report from chin china s official news agency. they say a black box detector picked up the signal at the same frequency emitted by flight data recorders. however, there is no confirmation the signals are related to the missing jet. molly henneberg live in washington with the latest. reporter: a pulse at that frequency, 37.5 kilohertz per second, the same frequency black boxes use to send out their locator pings, is what is intriguing people about this claim by the chinese. the chinese also are saying one of their air force planes spotted some white floating objects in that search area, but these details are coming out from china s state-run media and not from the international coordinator of the search. air chief martial angus houston. houston put out a statement today saying i have been advised that a series of sounds
ping. one every second. at 37.5 kilohertz per second, which is the frequency at which this pulse has been detected. just so you know what they are looking for and talking about, it is not really big. a little bigger than a shoe box. this could answer the questions about what happened to flight 370. hundreds of parameters in the honeywell model inside this boeing 777 malaysia 370 to tell you the pitch and yaw and speed in which this plane flew. this gives the technical information. also another black box, also orange, similar design, that tells you all of the audio recordi recordings. the last two hours from the cockpit recorder which has its own pinger. if it is a pinger, it could be from either one of those two black boxes. our retired navy captain chip mccord, we go back to you and we