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McMurdo Announces New Kannad GADSS Distress Tracking ELT
Orolia, through its McMurdo brand, today announced its Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System (GADSSThe Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System is an aircraft tracking technology that is responsible for tracking the location and status of the aircraft throughout all phases flight. GADSS main functions are: aircraft tracking, autonomous distress tracking, post flight localization and recovery.) compliant Distress Tracking Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT-DT), at the Paris Air Show. The Kannad GADSS ELT-DT will enable the autonomous tracking of commercial aircraft in distress through innovations such as trigger-in-flight capability, allowing the beacon to automatically transmit a distress signal with the aircraft’s accurate position.