Question
Hi.
I’m a friend of those who perished in the tragedy.
Obviously this is an awful time for the family.
If someone could help clear up some questions here it will be a small comfort. The last flight track for VH-PRW on most sites ends around 11am on Sunday. Flightaware however. shows it between Jindabyne and Khancoban at 3.16 to 3.26 pm (but says “location only”).
Meanwhile RSCU660 took off from Melbourne at 2.42 pm. It then flew straight to a very narrow search site at Kiandra. It did about 10 circuits before departing. The search site closely matches where VH-PRW was ultimately found by Police and Rescue people around 11:50pm.
I am guessing that VH-PRU had some sort of emergency locator like an EPIRB that could have been triggered automatically by g-forces or something?
Does the signal from something like that explain what showed up on the Flightaware site at a time after RSCU660 was already directly en route to the crash site?
Thanks for any help