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In the second incident, police were alerted to a personal locator beacon activation near the summit of the mountain.
He survived because of a life jacket, his emergency position indicating locator beacon, and a cooler.
A party of six trampers activated their distress beacon, which provided necessary details for the rescue operation,
In the second mission, the impact of the crash activated the plane’s 406-MHz emergency locator transmitter.
The rescue team were able to determine the man's exact location due to the emergency beacon activation.
The incident occurred just after midnight when a distress signal was received from the vessel’s EPIRB.
Using the signal from one of the survivor's personal locator beacon, the aircrew located both people wearing life jackets.
Regulators have introduced the ECC/DEC/(22)02 regulation for Class-M man overboard (MOB) devices that provide AIS information.
Authorities said the outcome would have been much worse if the crew hadn’t deployed the distress beacon.
