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Haven't heard of this one happening before. An RV-8 crashed east of here Sunday night and apparently the USAF got the ELT transmission and notified the local Sheriff. After this, the pilot's daughter used Apple's find my phone feature to give them an exact location and they quickly found the wreckage.

Unfortunately, the pilot died in the crash, he was the only person on board.

Anybody else hear of finding a crash site using an occupant's phone? I'm guessing it's happened before but never heard of it.

Guarantee the intelligence agencies have used this before...



On a serious note...that's a horrible way for the daughter to find out about her father...

I know that in CAP missions, using cell phone data has been growing in importance in our SAR missions. Do date, thought, I don't think we've located aircraft with it, just missing persons.