Navy Black Box Detector Joins in Deep Water Hunt for Missing Japanese F-35A
By: Sam LaGrone
April 26, 2019 12:13 PM
The U.S. Navy is employing tools it used in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 to help find a Japanese F-35A that crashed earlier this month, U.S. 7th Fleet announced on Thursday.
The service is sending out a Navy salvage team with a commercial deep-sea submersible, unspecified unmanned underwater vehicles and a TPL-25 “black box detector†– a towed sensor that can locate emergency beacons up to 25,000 feet below the ocean’s surface.
The salvage team embarked on commercial diving support construction vessel DSCV Van Gogh on Thursday from Okinawa, Japan. The participation is the latest U.S. assistance to find the Japanese Self Defense fighter that went missing on April 9. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force identified the still-missing pilot of the F-35A as Maj. Akinori Hosomi.
https://news.usni.org/2019/04/26/navy-black-box-detector-joins-in-deep-water-hunt-for-missing-japanese-f-35a
