About 12 months to complete. in addition, the search effort will include equipment provided by malaysia, which includes vessels fitted with search equipment, including towed sonar systems which will be used to search the sea floor. public request for tender has been issued seeking a primary contractor to bring together the equipment and vessels which will carry out the search. they will be directed by the australian transport safety bureau, from the operations center in cambra. can i emphasize again that this search is a major undertaking. we are optimistic that the capacity and the time that ez now been available to more carefully scrutinize the information that s been available from the satellite and indeed other information at our disposal, that this site is the best available and most likely
The black box. i don t want to say anymore than that. i want to get the most up-to-date briefing. from what we are confident is the black box is starting to fade. and, we are hoping to get as much information as we can. before the signal finally expires. all right well to pour some water some of the expectations generated by those committents. the man charged with coordinating the search effort, angus houston said that in the past 24 hours or so, there has been no significant break through in the search. there was a 5th ping detected
Area that may be there at this point. we will be taking off in the morning about daylight tomorrow morning to go out and continue the search. did you actually personally fly over this area in the indian ocean, commander? i did one mission over. what was it like when you were flying the first few days, everyone thought it was in a totally different area. but it looks like those first six days, that entire search was a waste of time, how frustrating is that? i wouldn t say that it s a waste of time. we were given areas to go search and we went out and we were able to determine that there wasn t anything there on the surface for us to find. that allowed the folks who coordinate the search effort to
Mh-370. the number of countries involved in the search-and-rescue operation has increased to 26. malaysia continues to lead the overall coordination of the search effort. the southern corridor has been divided into two sections, according to the international civil aviation organization demarcation. these demarcations were agreed by the ico, of which malaysia is a council member before and after 370 went missing. australia and malaysia have agreed to lead search-and-rescue operations in the specified regions. today i can confirm that search-and-rescue operations in the northern and southern corridors have already begun. countries, including malaysia, australia, china, indonesia, kazakhstan have already initiated search-and-rescue operations. the royal nation air force and the royal nation navy have deployed assets to the southern corridor. two malaysian ships have been
From tom costello from last year. that was ten days after flight 370 disappeared. with so many people on board, with no satisfaction explanation for what happened or why, everybody has figured all along from the moment it was first lost, everybody has figured that the wreckage of the plane would explain it. that when we found the wreckage of the plane, that would be our best home. our only hope of understanding what happened here. a lot of countries join in the hunt for the wreckage including the u.s. they searched for flight 370 with planes and shipments. they searched for it with robotic submersible that s are capable of combing the sea beds for any signs of the lost plane. because of the electronic signal that s continued after the pilot said good night, because of what the track was, the search effort has focused here. you see on the screen. the big vast stretches of very, very deem water off the coast of australia. they ve been dragging six-mile