Teenage girl Abby Sunderland set off two emergency beacons after her boat’s mast was removed in heavy weather yesterday.  You can read details HERE.

The rather interesting part of this rescue operation, to me, was that she was located and contacted after a QANTAS A330 was chartered and sent to find her.  No coast guard aircraft could make that trip and very few (if any) military aircraft in that part of the world would have been capable of doing it.  An empty A330 could do it easily (it was about a 9 hour trip total).   The pilots of the aircraft were able to communicate with Ms. Sunderland when she used her marina radio.

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