No new acoustic signals have been detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Source: AAP
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott is aiming to update China's president Xi Jinping on the latest developments in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 before he departs Beijing on Saturday.
As a final gesture before heading back to Australia at the end of his trade mission, Mr Abbott says he will seek the latest details from the Australian search co-ordinator, retired defence chief Angus Houston.
If there's any material change since Friday, he said, he would pass it on.
"What I have tried to do is keep the principal foreign leaders updated whenever there's been significant change," Mr Abbott told reporters in Beijing.
Mr Abbott's efforts in selling a trade deal to China appear to have been significantly assisted by Australia's search for MH370.
He said there had been appreciation at every level of the Chinese government.
But he played down prospects of an imminent breakthrough.
"While we have a high degree of confidence that the transmissions that we have been picking up are from flight MH370's black box recorder, no one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us," he told reporters in Beijing.
Mr Abbott said the search area had narrowed considerably.
But trying to locate anything 4.5 kilometres under the ocean thousands of kilometres from the Australian mainland remained a massive task.
"It is likely to continue for a long time to come," he said.
Mr Abbott said numerous signals had now been detected, giving a high degree of confidence these were coming from the aircraft's black boxes.
"Given that the signal from the black box is rapidly fading, what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can so that we can narrow the search area down to as small an area as possible," he said.
Submersibles will then be used to conduct a sonar search of the seabed.
Mr Abbott couldn't say when that might be.
In the latest update on the search on Saturday morning, the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) said no new acoustic signals have been detected in the previous 24 hours.
But the search was continuing with nine military aircraft, one civil aircraft and 14 ships in the search area.
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