"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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Having a transponder squawking 1200 does very little toward
S&R.

Isn't that how they located JFK Jr's plane?

At the bottom of the ocean? I think not.


IIRC they didn't search the entire floor of the Atlantic. They had a
starting point. Maybe some sonobuoys heard the splash.