On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:27:35 +0900, "donzaemon" wrote:

yeah he's certainly not evading but the big question is "why didn't his elt
go off ?"
what scenarios fit this ... he experienced a health problem and got the
plane down ?
doesn't seem like an experienced pilot like him would forget to set it off
by hand after a forced landing ....
Do they sometimes fail to go off on impact ?

As someone else posted, severe crashes can sever the ELT antenna. Sadly, it's
the scenario that best fits the apparent lack of signals from either his ELT or
his wrist-mounted PLB.

Ron Wanttaja