Malfunction of EPIRB delays search



9:14 PM Thu 12 Aug 2010 GMT
'EPIRB Rescue' .
The news that the recent fatal air crash in which former United States senator Ted Stevens was killed was hampered because the plane's automatic EPIRB did not activate is an important heads-up for sailors. I am now going to have our onboard and personal EPIRBs tested - the ones I hope we will never never have to rely on The amphibious plane carrying former senator Ted Stevens was equipped with a state-of-the-art emergency beacon designed to notify a constellation of satellites in the event of a crash, but it did not send out an alert, the federal agency that tracks ...


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