{"id":828,"date":"2014-05-29T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-05-29T06:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:40:21","slug":"navy-dismiss-pings-lead-jet-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"US Navy won&#8217;t dismiss &#8216;pings&#8217; lead in jet search"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-829 aligncenter\" alt=\"image (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-2-300x178.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-2-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>U.S. Navy spokesman on Thursday dismissed as \u201cspeculative and premature\u201d an American expert\u2019s reported comments that the acoustic \u201cpings\u201d at the center of the search for the missing Malaysian plane had not come from the jet\u2019s back boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The CNN reported the Navy\u2019s deputy director of ocean engineering, Michael Dean, had said most countries now agreed that the sounds detected by the Navy\u2019s Towed Ping Locator in April in the southern Indian Ocean came from a man-made source unrelated to the missing jet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Dean\u2019s comments today were speculative and premature, as we continue to work with our partners to more thoroughly understand the data acquired by the Towed Pinger Locator,\u201d U.S. Navy spokesman Chris Johnson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy would defer to Australia, as the lead in the Indian Ocean search effort, to make additional information known at the appropriate time, Johnson said. Australia\u2019s Joint Agency Coordination Center did not immediately respond to requests for comment to the report on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dean could not be immediately reached for comment. Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss also did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished with 239 people on board on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite analysis led authorities to believe that the Boeing 777 had diverted sharply from its flight path and flown south to the Indian Ocean. Officials have described the detection of four series of \u201cpings\u201d as their best lead in the search for the jet\u2019s black box. But an intensive search by an unmanned submarine has found nothing so far.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdnBottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Navy spokesman on Thursday dismissed as \u201cspeculative and premature\u201d an American expert\u2019s reported comments that the acoustic \u201cpings\u201d at the center of the search for the missing Malaysian plane had not come from the jet\u2019s back boxes. The CNN reported the Navy\u2019s deputy director of ocean engineering, Michael Dean, had said most countries now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}