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Find My IPhone Used To Locate Plane Crash In Chile
spagiola writes "Late last week, a military transport aircraft with 17 people on -board went missing near Robinson Crusoe, Chile. The relatives of one of the crash victims logged into Find My iPhone and were able to isolate the coordinates of the last known whereabouts of the plane before it crashed. From the article: 'Rear Admiral Francisco García-Huidobro explained the founding thatgarnered a lot of attention today, and it has to do with an iPhone belonging toone of the victims of the aereal accident in Juan Fernández, in a beachin Bahía Carvajal. The phone signal could be captured thanks to the GPS system, however, waterended up shutting it down. Nevertheless, García Huidoro explained that theymanaged to plot the last position from where the signal was last generated, whichwill be made public tomorrow.'" 
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