PERTH: Authorities were racing the clock on Tuesday to find the “black box” of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 before its signal goes silent, as Malaysia admitted it got the last words from the cockpit of the doomed plane wrong.

Australian vessel Ocean Shield, fitted with a US-supplied black box detector known as a “towed pinger locator” left Perth on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) but is expected to take up to three days to reach the search zone in the remote southern Indian Ocean.

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