A US Navy high tech "black box" locator is deployed for the first time as the battery life of the cockpit data recorder dwindles.
Chinese vessel Haixun 01 has intensified its effort to detect signals emitted from the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Chinese operations in the multinational effort to search for the missing Malaysian flight have covered more than 200,000 square kilometers in the area 1,850 km west of Perth, Australia.
The Malaysian frigate KD Lekiu departed Thursday evening from Royal Australian Navy's primary base in the west coast with HMAS Stirling to become another ship enrolled in search operations in Southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia's prime minister arrived at the Australian air force base serving as a hub for the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang talks on the phone with his Australian counterpart, Tony Abbott, and they both pledge to continue the search for the missing jet.
Nothing related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were found so far in waters where suspicious objects had been spotted, said captain of the Chinese vessel Haixun 01 on Tuesday.
A Perth-based Joint Agency Coordination Center was officially launched Tuesday to coordinate the multinational search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The families of the Chinese passengers of MH370 have thanked all the nations, including Malaysia, that are involved in the ongoing search for the missing flight that ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Ten planes and ten ships - including seven ships from China - are searching for missing flight MH370 in a patch of the southern Indian Ocean.
The weekslong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is "an extraordinarily difficult exercise" but it will go on as long as possible, Australia's prime minister said.
Ships helping to search for signs of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have retrieved objects from the sea for the first time, but they could not be confirmed as aircraft debris