1. Around the same time, a satellite picked up an emergency beacon signal off Montauk, N.Y. 2. Around the same time, a satellite picked up an emergency beacon signal off Montauk, Long Island. 3. As part of their survival kit, pilots carry emergency beacons. 4. A new Coast Guard rules mandating emergency beacons, crew drills, life rafts and survival suits cut those tragedies by half. 5. Each crew member has emergency equipment, including life rafts, lights, emergency beacons and radios. 6. Finally, on Wednesday night, he activated the emergency beacon on his radio and moved into a clearing so his signal would be clear. 7. Lee is the man responsible for tracking down emergency beacons that help authorities locate planes that go down over land. 8. The time is known because an emergency beacon was triggered as it disappeared beneath the waves. 9. There had been no mayday call from the ship or signals from an emergency beacon that is supposed to go off automatically when a ship capsizes. 10. Those deaths, and a plane crash in Alaska involving two congressmen, led Congress to require emergency beacons in all aircraft. |