Posted on 12/29/2014 1:00:02 AM PST by House Atreides
Yep,the Donner folks sure paid a high price for their “shortcut”
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That is why cell phones on that plane unless the plane had a high tech system would not have been likely worked because they were too far away from towers. But on 911 because the planes were over land and densely populated areas the passengers were able to use them.
The guy lost needed a Tweaked out CB with a modest linear. That would have stood a far better chance of reaching help due to it being in the 27 MHZ band.
True rescue story. About ten years ago a school took kids on a field trip to The Great Smokey Mountain National Park. They were to hike a mile and half one way to a waterfall. This was in a gorge like environment with mountains on both sides. When they got there a student fell in the water below the falls and drowned {5th or 6th grader IIRC}. The teachers faced a walk out for a ranger and cell phones did not work. One student had a HAM Radio license and had brought his handheld HAM Radio, In the 144 MHZ bandwidth he was able to get radio contact and summon help. Frequency range of radio means everything as did in this case a repeater on the mountain close to him. I know the place it happened at real well.
LOL!
What a smart kid to bring that.
Does anyone know how many minutes it was from TAKE OFF that the crash happened.
Does this crash technically qualify as being “During Take OFF”?
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