A military airplane with 21 citizenry aboard was recede over Chile ’s ocean this weekend . It disappeared from radar and the authorities did n’t jazz where it crash . astonishingly , they started to find their bodies thanks to Apple ’s Find My iPhone feature .
Remains from the CASA 212 from Chile ’s Air Force were base floating in the sea near Tierra Banca and Playa Larga , in a geographical zone between the islands of Robinson Crusoe and Santa Clara , and Juan Fernández airdrome .
The collapse point was site thanks to one of the victims ’ relatives . The dupe had an active iPhone at the time of the collapse . Presumably out of desperation , the relative tried the Find My iPhone feature that Apple offer for iOS devices . Surprisingly , the phone appeared on the single-valued function in the information processing system , according to one of the military functionary in charge of the search operation :
One of the passengers carry [ an iPhone ] . When it fell into the ocean , it was located and one of the congenator broadcast us that information .
It ’s surprising that the iPhone survived the impingement and continued to exploit , even more so because the clangoring was really extreme , concord to the military generator :
None of the pieces so far recover is heavy than 50 centimeters ( 20 column inch ) which confirm that the airplane support a high-pitched fragmentation [ on impact ]
The search teams — on the image — are now trying to recover the body from the bottom of the ocean using two Proteus 1000 robots , but the weather conditions are extremely high-risk at this clip . Military divers will pop out the recovery as soon as the condition bring in up , but four body have been line up already . [ Infobae — Thanks Fran Velazquez ! ]
Note : Someone changed the headline after publication by fault . The title has been reverted to the original . — JD
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