Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Alright, I have to ask this again about the ELT. Wouldn't a B777 in 2014 have a 406mhz ELT on it?
If it crashed then the ELT would have been activated by impact and within a minute an encoded digital message to a satelite saying the ELT's ID/aircraft ID, country code and coordinates. I've seen it work.
Oh yes they work fine, but they don't work at all after a 200g impact which accordions the fuselage and engines.
CNN seems to think there are elt buoys that pop out, maybe they have been watching too many submarine movies.