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![]() ![]() In the European Union, however, the changes will take effect in 2019, Jouty said. In 2012, the BEA’s advice was adopted by the U.N.’s International Civil Aviation Organization, which urged members to make them mandatory from 2018. Under current rules, the beacons must be capable of sending out a tracking ping for 30 days before the signals die out. “It is a subject still under discussion,” BEA director Remy Jouty said in an interview, adding last week’s disappearance of Flight 370 could focus further attention on the discussions.Īlthough one proposal, that the minimum battery life on locator beacons attached to the vital recording devices should be tripled to 90 days, has been backed by global regulators, it will not become mandatory until towards the end of the decade. Proposals for helping with future searches include getting the jet to give its location automatically before an accident happens and a new, more widely accessible frequency for transmitting homing signals - expanding archaic transmissions that may be inaudible even to modern military search crews.Ī French probe into the crash of an Air France jet in the Atlantic in 2009, which triggered a two-year $50 million search to find its crucial black boxes, led to a series of recommendations from France’s BEA crash investigation agency.īut some recommendations that could potentially make it easier to track down such aircraft such as the Malaysian jet are bogged down in talks between regulators and the aviation industry, with no timetable for putting them into effect. ![]() Mystery over the Boeing 777’s whereabouts deepened on Wednesday when Malaysia said it was searching an area hundreds of miles from its last known position.Īs well as scouring the area with ships, planes and satellites, investigators are trying to pick up signals from beacons on the jet’s data and cockpit voice recorders. Military officers work in the cockpit of a Vietnam Air Force AN-26 aircraft during a mission to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, that disappeared from radar screens in the early hours of Saturday, off Con Dao island March 12, 2014. ![]()
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