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Old 7th Aug 2015, 01:38
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Folks, please, whatever expensive dud might be fitted to an aircraft, have a portable in your pocket --- not in your flight bag, in your pocket.
Absolutely and where possible activate it before touchdown/impact*

*After 4 engine failures I know this is much easier said than done. In two of them I certainly had time to do so (brain space is a different matter), but this was before affordable EPIRBs.
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