The search for the missing Malaysian Airline's black box involves a staggering array of sophisticated ships, aircraft and equipment, with eight countries contributing 17 vessels and 19 aircraft – including British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless. And today, it looked like the scale of the operation had paid off, with reports that the flight recorder had been located deep in the Indian Ocean. Perth radio station 6PR tweeted the discovery, citing aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas, who revealed the flight recorder had finally been found more than a month after the Boeing 777 went missing. The black box is likely to be around 15,000 feet down and a staggering array of ships and planes are hunting it
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Reports have emerged that missing Malaysian Airline's black box has been located deep in the Indian Ocean
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is 'very confident' signals are from MH370, missing since March 8
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He even claims that officials believe they can now pinpoint position of box flight recorder to 'nearest kilometre'
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Announcement came after fifth ping was detected around 1,500 miles north west of Perth, in western Australia
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Signal captured yesterday by Royal Australian Air Force Orion P-3 aircraft, which had been dropping sonar buoys
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Possible black box signals were heard for several minutes earlier this week by ship in remote area of the ocean
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Underwater search zone is currently 1,300-square-kilometre patch of ocean floor, the size of city of Los Angeles
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