A ray of hope has been cast on the mission to find the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
CBS News reports that an Australian ship searching for the Malaysian Airlines jet has detected two more underwater signals that have come from the aircraft's black boxes.
Australian officials in charge of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search have expressed hope Wednesday that the plane's wreckage will soon be found.
The head of a join agency coordinating the search of the missing plane in the southern Indian Ocean, Angus Houston, said that the navy's Ocean Shield picked up the two signals on Tuesday.
Both signals were detected in the same area last week, which showed they were consistent with a plane's black boxes.
Houston stated, "I'm now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not too distant future - but we haven't found it yet, because this is a very challenging business."
He continued, "The analysts assess that the transmission was not of natural origin and was likely sources from specific electronic equipment. They believe the signals to be consistent with the specification and description of a flight data recorder."
Although promising evidence has surfaced, Houston stated, "I think we're looking in the right area, but I'm not prepared to say - to confirm - anything until such time as somebody lays eyes on the wreckage."
Two U.S. Navy officers told the Reuters news agency Wednesday that, "while the pings had been found within a 502 square mile area, they were not confident that they presented reoccurrences of the same signal."
It has been emphasized throughout the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that finding the black boxes asap is a matter of urgency because the battery life is due to die very soon.
It has been reported that Tuesday marked exactly one month since the plane vanished.
Despite the encouraging developments, once the beacons blink off, locating the black boxes in such deep water would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
Houston also brought up that the floor of the Indian Ocean in the region in question is covered in many yards of slit, which can swallow sunken objects up, making the visual search of the ocean floor even more challenging.
