Report: Signals detected from EgyptAir Flight 804 in Mediterranean

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Report: Signals detected from EgyptAir Flight 804 in Mediterranean
By Sarah Sirgany, Salma Abdelaziz and Madison Park, CNN

(CNN)Airbus has detected signals from the Mediterranean Sea where EgyptAir Flight 804 crashed last week, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram news agency reported Thursday.

The signals were emitted by the plane's emergency locator transmitter, a device that can manually or automatically activate at impact and will usually send a distress signal. The signals from the emergency locator transmitter are different from the pings emitted by the "black boxes."

Having these signals narrows down the area that the multinational search team has been focusing on -- which a few days ago was described as "about the size of Connecticut." It dramatically decreases the search area to a 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) radius, giving investigators a more specific location to detect pings from the black boxes.

Full story: http://us.cnn.com/2016/05/26/middleeast/egyptair-airbus-signals-detected/index.html


-- CNN 2016-05-27

[JetsetBkk]

"about the size of Connecticut."

For the rest of the English speaking world, that's about the size of Yorkshire.

[PETERTHEEATER]

So Yorkshire is only 6.4 miles in diameter? Wow you Brits live small....

[ozyjon]

I hope they find it.

size of Connecticut,,,, 14.36 billion m²

size of Yorkshire,,,,,, 11.9 billion m²

a big area to swim in.

[IAMHERE]

How long has Airbus been withholding this information? It comes via a satellite and the satellite didn't just start picking it up.

[Chicog]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36427053