Satellites Captured Doomed EgyptAir Jet’s Distress Signals
- Emergency transmitter gave location of probable crash site
- U.S., EU satellite data sent to investigators seeking plane
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Constellations of European and U.S. satellites captured emergency distress signals from the doomed EgyptAir Flight 804 minutes after it fell off radar on May 19, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A device known as an emergency locator transmitter, or ELT, began radioing an automatic distress message at 2:36 a.m. local time, Lieutenant Jason Wilson, an operations support officer at NOAA, said in an e-mail.