Makes for interesting reading; seems the great 406 ELT's may not be any better than our 121's
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=8d9d03b0-aa5b-4add-993 3-38ada5d43d78& ELT Aboard Downed DeHavilland Otter Appears To Have Malfunctioned Wed, 18 Aug '10 NTSB Chair Hersman Confirms No Signal Was Received From 406-MHz Transponder As authorities continue to look into the crash of the DeHavilland DCH-T3 Otter which went down in Alaska last week, there is a good possibility that there will be an investigation within an investigation. The accident killed former Senator Ted Stevens and four others. <http://mail.lavernia.net:8100/Redirect/www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?Cont entBlockID=8d9d03b0-aa5b-4add-9933-38ada5d43d78&#d> Chris O'Connors, program manager for SARSAT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system, announced Thursday that the plane was equipped with one of the new 406-MHz transponders, and that it had been properly registered. But authorities did not receive a signal from the plane, despite confirmed satellite passes shortlyafter it went down. Without the beacon's GPS coordinates, or even the knowledge the plane was down, the search for survivors was delayed for about two hours after the accident.
