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PERTH, Australia (AP) — Underwater sounds picked up by a search vessel scouring the remote Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" in the month-long hunt for the vanished plane. Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean, warned that it could take days to confirm whether the signals picked up by the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield are indeed from the flight recorders on Flight 370, but called the discovery very encouraging. Read More http://ift.tt/1fwqePM