馬航失聯航班搜索工作從空中轉到水下

Australia began an underwater search of the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 using military hardware from U.S. and U.K. Navies, despite repeated air sorties that have so far failed to find any wreckage from the missing plane.

儘管到目前爲止，反覆出動的飛機都未能找到馬來西亞航空(Malaysia Airlines) 370航班的任何殘骸，但澳大利亞已經開始用美國和英國海軍提供的軍用設備在印度洋南部進行水下搜索。

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who is coordinating the multinational search off the coast of Australia, said the Australian defense vessel Ocean Shield and HMS Echo would cover a 240 kilometer area of ocean where authorities think the plane is most likely to have gone down. Ocean Shield is equipped with a U.S. device designed to detect signals from the aircraft's black box flight recorders deep below the ocean surface. HMS Echo is a U.K. military survey vessel able to profile ocean depths.

負責協調多國搜救行動的澳大利亞空軍上將休斯敦(Angus Houston)說，澳大利亞軍艦“海洋之盾”號(Ocean Shield)和英國海軍“回聲”號將在有關部門認爲最可能是飛機觸海地點的方圓240公里海域進行搜索。“海洋盾號”配備了美國提供的一種裝備，可以探測飛機黑匣子在深海發出的信號。“回聲號”是英國的一艘軍用測量船，可以對海底進行測繪。

The former Australian defense chief said investigators were reaching the end of their analysis of radar data and satellite communications from the plane.

曾擔任澳大利亞國防軍司令的休斯敦說，調查人員對雷達數據和飛機發出衛星通訊信號的分析已經接近完成。

'I think we have probably got to the end of the process of analysis. My expectation is we're into a situation where the data we've got is the data we've got, and we'll proceed on the basis of that,' he said.

他說，他本人認爲數據分析可能已經進入尾聲，有關部門將在這些數據的基礎上來繼續下一步行動。