Pings probably not from black boxes

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And somewhat of a retraction.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-29/mh...gs/5485970

But the US Navy has since issued a statement calling Mr Dean's comments "speculative and premature".

"The US has been working cooperatively with our Malaysia, Australian and international partners for more than two months in an effort to locate MH370," a spokesman said.

"Mike Dean's comments today were speculative and premature, as we continue to work with our partners to more thoroughly understand the data acquired by the towed pinger locator.

"As such, we would defer to the Australians, as the lead in the search effort, to make additional information known at the appropriate time."

Mr Dean told CNN it was not possible to absolutely exclude that the pings came from the black boxes, but there was no evidence now to suggest they did.