MH370 report reveals black box battery expired a year before flight
Precisely a year ago, on March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 mysteriously disappeared over the Straits of Malacca. There’s still no trace of the Boeing 777-200 or its 239 passengers and crew, but an exhaustive 584-page report released today reveals that the battery powering one black box’s locator beacon expired over a year before the incident.
The old battery means that crews searching the southern Indian Ocean likely wouldn’t have picked up a signal from the black box even if they were floating right over it. In the weeks after the disappearance, crews searched hastily to try and find a black box before the batteries ran out of power. They’re required to last at least 30 days after a crash.
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Source:: The Verge
