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ping
clear, sharp, high-pitched, metallic, musical note created by a flicking percussion stroke over a viscus containing gas under moderate pressure and a small amount of fluid; used extensively in the physical examination of the abdomen in cattle and horses.
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The black boxes' locator beacons, known as pingers, emit signals for 30 days after the crash.
Yemenia jet black box signals detected by International Business Times - US ed.
The Towed Pinger Locator, will try to detect emergency audio beacons from Flight 447's black boxes, which could be thousands of feet below the ocean surface.
Hunt is on for black boxes by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The US Navy said on Sunday it would send two towable pinger locators and a crew of around 20 to the scene later this week, in the hope of finding the data recorders.
17 bodies recovered from Air France crash zone in Atlantic by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
 
 
 
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