11.   Had he initiated ejection, the plane would have automatically sent a radio distress call.

12.   However, no radio distress call was issued by the ship, Coast Guard officials say.

13.   However, a routine P.R. tour turns dangerous when the ship is forced to answer a distress call from a mysterious energy band.

14.   If something had gone wrong with the plane, he said, the pilots would probably have had enough time to make a distress call.

15.   In the future, emergency workers hope to avoid such life-threatening delays when cell-phone distress calls can provide the location of trauma victims.

16.   In prison, Gonzales said, he held on to the belief that his unit heard their radio distress call when the three were captured.

17.   It says that the severely damaged American spy plane landed in China illegally because it did not issue a distress call or request permission to land.

18.   It prevents a transmission that comes in after a distress call from wiping out information needed to learn the bearing of a mayday.

19.   It was that coolness that momentarily fooled LaShelle when the distress call came in.

20.   Kovacs, of the Mountain Rescue Association, recalled a distress call two years ago from a man who had run out of cigarettes.