KUALA LUMPUR, malaysia — Search crews looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 prepared to set out again Monday morning after efforts Sunday resulted in new debris sightings but no confirmed signs of the passenger jet.
An Australian navy support vessel, which will tow U.S. Navy equipment listening for “pings” from the plane’s black box, was scheduled to depart Perth on Monday. It was to join nine other ships and 10 planes scouring the Indian Ocean for signs of the plane, which vanished March 8.
Time is running out for the search team to find the black box, a critical piece of equipment containing cockpit audio and flight data. The box will emit signals for about 30 days, which means the operation has about a week left to find it before it goes silent.
The hunt for Flight 370 stepped into a higher gear Sunday. Crews from some of the planes spotted objects floating in the water. But determining whether that debris is related to the plane will have to wait until ships find the items and scoop them up for examination.
