121.5 & Airliners

We also had a good ending in AZ. a few years back
: A visiting pilot in a libelle was trying a 500k flight
and after all of the locals were back, his wife and
us were wondering what had happened to him. They had
alternate plans one of wich was to call her mothers
house and leave a message. When she checked that he
had not been heard from. As we started to worry we
decided to call Prescott FSS to report him missing.
When we contacted them to our surprise they informed
US were he was. He had landed out at a remote location
and his cell phone did not work and no land line was
available it was close to dark and to keep us from
worrying he contacted an airliner on 121.5 and had
them relay to FSS that he had landed and was OK. A
happy ending, we knew were the feild was and sent his
much relieved crew on her way to pick him up!



At 14:12 17 November 2003, Zasoars wrote:
FYI - 121.5 was used with success at the 15m nationals
in Tonopah a year ago. a
pilot who had outlanded and could not be located by
the organization was found
via a relayed transmission via an airliner .It's worth
a try !