Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) are mandatory on French aircraft, so last year French firm Ceis developed a new one which they are showing off here at Paris.
When the automatic sensor detects a crash it sends a signal received by a satellite dedicated system so the exact location of the aircraft is known and found.
You can see the Cospas-Sarsat emergency locator transmitter A06 in Hall 4, stand F5.
Source: Flight Daily News
The January incident at Ellsworth AFB resulted in the destruction of the $450 million bomber and a rare quadruple ejection of the crew, who were attempting to execute an instrument landing during poor weather.
Investigators probing the fatal Bombardier CRJ200 crash at Kathmandu will inevitably focus on the extraordinary attitude the aircraft developed as it lifted off from runway 02. Nepal’s civil aviation regulator states that the captain survived the 24 July accident but the first officer, and the 17 other occupants, did not. ...
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