Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) co-pilot, Flight Lieutenant Thomas Hofbrucker, looks out from the cockpit of a AP-3C Orion as part of the RAAF No 11 Squadron's search over the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370Reuters
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has said it has detected a distress signal in the southern Indian Ocean near Antarctica amid the ongoing search measures to find the debris of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The emergency beacon activation emerged from a fishing vessel and the nature of the distress call is still unknown.
AMSA said: "The beacon is located about 3,241 kilometres south west of Perth and 648 kilometres north of the Antarctic mainland."
Two aircraft have been deployed to the area from where the signal had come and it will take at least five hours for the planes to reach the location.
Australia has sent a P3 Orion, which is part of the ongoing search for the MH370 jetliner, to the location and the aircraft is capable of dropping survival equipment.
The search for the missing Malaysian jetliner has entered the fourth week as aircraft and naval vessels press ahead with combing operations in the southern Indian Ocean.
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