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February Deadline For Emergency Beacons Approaches

Posted by timothy on from the emergency-bacon-unaffected dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In two weeks, older emergency locator beacons will no longer be monitored by satellites. USA Today noticed that 85% of private aircraft in the US have not switched to the 406 MHz beacons. I thought I'd send up a flare about this. And this should not be relevant to the airplane which landed in the Hudson River today, as that was a commercial plane and its location was known by a number of bystanders, one of whom helped crash TwitPic."

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  1. Plane crashed YESTERDAY by hicks107 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That was yesterday. Update your story.

    1. Re:Plane crashed YESTERDAY by An+anonymous+Frank · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      no no!
      This is actually the duplicate submission that got there a little too fast.

    2. Re:Plane crashed YESTERDAY by who+knows+my+name · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And tomorrow the story will be out of date. OMFG We will have to update the story again!

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      Nothing to see here.
    3. Re:Plane crashed YESTERDAY by hicks107 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      People might wake up, open slashdot, and think another plane landed in the hudson today.