Emergency locator beacon
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title:
Emergency locator beacon
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An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue. Various types of emergency locator beacons are carried by aircraft, ships, vehicles, hikers and cross-country skiers. In case of an emergency, such as the aircraft crashing, the ship sinking, or a hiker becoming lost, the transmitter is deployed and begins to transmit a continuous radio signal, which is used by se
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Radio-frequency beacon used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_locator_beacon
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2022-05-03T09:09:13Z
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