How tough are EPIRB's

Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:06
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The last couple of weeks news has been consumed with the missing aircraft. Just wondering how tough an EPIRB is and would one survive a serious crash either in a car or plane crash. For me I find it amazing that an aircraft doesn't have some signalling device which automatically turns on in the case of an emergency.

In the USA the OnSat system for cars automatically turns on if the airbags are deployed and an distress signal is sent to OnSat, if the driver does not reply the authorities are notified of a crash.

What would have happened if a passenger in the plane activated an EPIRB could it have survived an ocean impact an floated giving a precise location of the crash.

Just wondering.
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