英国海军船只继续寻找MH370

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　　British Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel have also been flying in Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force maritime³ patrol aircraft to scour⁴ the waters from above, looking for debris⁵ and dropping listening buoys⁶, MoD said in a statement.

　　HMS Echo, a British Royal Navy coastal⁷ survey ship carrying around 60 search personnel, has scoured⁸ an area 6 times the size of Greater London, as the search crews face a race against time before the black box flight recorder stops sending out a signal, according to the ministry.

　　HMS Echo's hi-tech sonar has been specially⁹ adapted to pick up any transmissions on the black box's frequency, the first time for the device to be used this way, the MoD added.

　　Although it has located several possible contacts so far, none of them proved to be from MH370's black box.

　　Moreover, HMS Tireless, a Trafalgar Class submarine, is working as part of the coordinated¹⁰ international search, with its sonar listening for the 'ping' signal sent out every second by the black box transponder as long as its battery lasts, the MoD said.

　　So far, the two vessels¹² have not found the black box flight recorder or wreckage¹³ from the missing plane.

　　The Royal Australian Navy's vessel¹¹ Ocean Shield is searching 300 miles to the north, and the British Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force are making a valuable contribution to the Australian-led search for missing Malaysian airliner¹⁴ MH370, according to the MoD.

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