A senior Malaysian official has lit a candle of hope for families of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 by telling a news conference that: ‘Miracles do happen.’

Malaysian minister Hishammudin Hussein said that despite grim satellite information on the chance of survivors, “Miracles do happen. We are still hoping against hope that we can find survivors.”

Meanwhile, Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency co-ordinating the search, warned that it could take days to confirm whether the signals picked up by the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield are indeed from the black boxes that belonged to Flight MH370, but called the discovery very encouraging.

“As stated by the Joint Agency Coordinating Centre (JACC) in Perth earlier, the towed pinger locator deployed from HMAS Ocean Shield has detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes.

Hishammuddin added: “Three groups have been established, namely – an airworthiness group to look at issues such as maintenance; an operations group to examine things such as flight recorders, operations and meteorology; and a medical and human factors group to investigate issues such as psychology, pathology and survival factors.

According to a report on the asiaone website , quoting the Asia News Network, On another matter, Hishammud¬din denied a foreign news report which claimed the MH370 aircraft was flying around Indonesian airspace before heading to the Indian Ocean.

“It’s confirmed there were no sightings of the plane (in Indonesian airspace),” he said yesterday.

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