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More ships head to probe signals in plane search

By EILEEN NGNICK PERRY
Published April 6, 2014 4:58am ET
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More ships head to probe signals in plane search
A woman ties a message card for passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Search teams racing against time to find the flight recorders from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crisscrossed another patch of the Indian Ocean on Saturday, four weeks to the day after the airliner vanished. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin) | Lai Seng Sin

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Naval vessels carrying sophisticated deep-sea black box detectors were rushing to the site of an “important and encouraging” lead in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner, the head of the multinational search said on Sunday.

But retired Australian Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston stressed the two electronic pulses that a Chinese ship reported detecting on Friday and Saturday had not been verified as connected to the missing jet.

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