PERTH: Authorities were racing against the clock Tuesday to find the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 before its signal goes silent, as Malaysia admitted it got the last words from the cockpit of the doomed plane wrong.
Australian vessel Ocean Shield, fitted with a US-supplied black box detector known as a “towed pinger locator” left Perth Monday but is expected to take up to three days to reach the search zone in the remote southern Indian Ocean.
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