discussion later. it s the fact that a water-based activated elt did not activate. and it s supposition. david, you have elt right here. let s go to it since les brought it up. this is an elt that would come from a much smaller plane like a sa cessna. elt stands for emergency locating transmitter. this is one of the first ones that came out. this had 121.5 megahertz. these were very unreliable. like just barely over 50% reliable deployment on impact. the new generation that would be in a 777 very reliable. very much so. they ve gone through two iterations since this in an attempt to try to extend the range of that. there s actually two of those elts in a 777. there are. or there may actually be four.
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