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Old Jan 23, 2016 | 11:21 am
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Tanic
 
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Originally Posted by OUTraveling
If she had activated the device the homing beacon would most likely signaled that airport that a plane had crashed or some similar catastrophe.
I would have just let her play with it for the entertainment value. But as far a signaling a plane crash, no worries since airplane Emergency Locator Transmitters use 121.5MHz and 243.0MHz. Search & Rescue would have likely found the PLB in a secret TSA groping room.
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