PERTH: An Australian navy ship has detected new underwater signals consistent with aircraft black boxes, the search chief said on Monday, describing it as the “most promising lead” so far in the month-old hunt for missing Flight MH370.

Retired Australian defense force chief Angus Houston said the acoustics, emanating from deep down in the Indian Ocean, showed that the multinational search by ships and planes seemed to be “very close to where we need to be.”

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