On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected] > wrote:
> I find it amazing that these planes aren't fitted with some kind of > beacon, independent of the comms. > They are - it's called a transponder, and the 777 has two of them configured in a redundant manner - if one dies, the other automatically takes over. They also have multiple different beacons that activate under certain conditions, such as when they get wet - but of course that would only occur if it actually crashed. Scott _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
