Perhaps somewhat unrealistically, this is what I expected from a flight following system!
The operator of the helicopter had also installed a flight monitoring system that used satellite and web-based communication systems to allow the operator to receive accurate information on the location of company aircraft every 10 minutes while they were in flight. An alert and the location of the helicopter was also provided in the event of an emergency. As such, it supplemented the other methods of search and rescue (SAR) alerting.
In an emergency, the flight monitoring system stopped transmitting to the website, immediately generating distress messages that were sent by text and email to the operator’s nominated personnel. Those messages contained an affected aircraft’s last recorded position, speed, altitude and direction of flight.
The operator reported that on the day, the system alerted the operations manager to an emergency and that the operations manager then called the pilot’s mobile phone. When that call was diverted to message bank, the manager had contacted emergency services.
(Extract from the report cited by squibb66.)