Originally Posted by
wheelsright
For those that suggest that it is difficult or impossible to design an effective device for locating an ocean crash site; I would suggest you are as wrong as wrong could be.
For the scenario you draw up, there are ELT's and rafts. A survivable water landing and successful exit has been provided for. Now, is it sufficient to the task? In New York it was, but that was not "out at sea" but on a river in the biggest city in the nation. How many at sea ditchings have happened in the last 40 years that were survivable? What were the cues that got search and rescue teams to the location?