A Chinese ship that is part of the multinational search effort looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has detected a 'pulse signal' in southern Indian Ocean waters, it has emerged.
China's official news agency said a black box detector deployed by the vessel, Haixun 01, picked up a signal today.
The ship said that the signal it picked up has a frequency of 37.5kHz per second, which is the type that the aircraft's black box would send out.
It could provide a dramatic breakthrough in the hunt for the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
However, there is no immediate evidence that the signal is linked to the missing jet.
Dozens of ships and aircraft from several nations are involved in the search in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 miles west of Perth, Western Australia.
The reported signal gives the first ray of hope that a breakthrough has been achieved in the search after numerous heartbreaking discoveries of nothing but rubbish floating on the ocean, rather than debris from the aircraft.
The report said it was not established whether that the signal was related to the missing jet.
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