From U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs
The NAS Jacksonville-based VP-16 “War Eagles” P-8s in Perth are still flying search missions. Overall patrol aircraft support to date includes 24 missions with 220 of flight time covering 336,000 square nautical miles.
Additionally, the U.S. Navy team operating the towed pinger locator (TPL) onboard Australian defense vessel Ocean Shield detected pinging signals, April 6.
The detected signals are consistent with sounds that would come from a black box.