GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The University of North Dakota aerospace dean says an investigation into the cause of a crash that killed a flight instructor and student will include questions about an emergency ...

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McMurdo Group’s Kannad Aviation Selected to Provide Complete Emergency Locator Transmitter Distress Beacon Shipset for Embraer E-Jets Second Generation Aircraft. (Photo: Business Wire) McMurdo Group’s ...

What is a personal locator beacon (PLB)? A personal locator beacon, or PLB, is a small device meant for use in an emergency that helps rescue teams find your exact location. When used, it sends an SOS ...

Calling it the "most promising lead" so far, the leader of the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner says ships have again detected a... Calling it the "most promising lead" so far, the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Personal locater beacons, a potential lifesaving technology, became available Tuesday to millions of Americans. The beacon system became operational in the 48 contiguous states, ...

BAY CENTER, Wash. — It has now been more than three weeks since Bryson Fitch, a 23-year-old Washington father of three went missing at sea after the crabbing boat he was working on started to sink. As ...

A group of fishermen adrift in the remote Western Pacific made their recent rescue significantly easier because they carried a personal locator beacon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard search ...

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Did you know that the same search and rescue technologies developed by NASA for astronaut missions to space help locate and rescue people across the United States and around the world? NASA’s ...

A personal locator beacon is a 406 MHz beacon that can be used anywhere in the world, including the most remote locations like on oceans, mountains and in deep wilderness. The satellite system can ...

Colorado search-and-rescue officials have been chasing satellite SOS signals around the state, sometimes tracking them to thrift stores, landfills and other bizarre locations. Personal locator beacons ...