Chilean airplane crash located via Apple’s Find My iPhone
7th September 2011
Search and rescue teams were unable to find the airplane, which prompted one of the victims’ relatives to try locating them with the Find My iPhone functionality, which uses an iPhone’s GPS receiver to track the device’s location. According to infobae.com (via Gizmodo), the relative shared the location data with military officials in charge of the search operation.
“One of the passengers carried (an iPhone). When it fell into the sea, it was located and one of the relatives sent us hat information,” the military official reportedly said.
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