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Hours on Dunnick Flat: Beacon Sent Help - Nobody Looked
Hours on Dunnick Flat: Beacon Sent Help - Nobody Looked
Cold and isolation became a test of how much one person could endure: a 62-year-old woman lay on an inaccessible plateau for 56 hours in eight-degree Fahrenheit conditions while her personal beacon transmitted correct coordinates that no one read. How did a firmware error, three un-escalated phone calls, and one pilot's note about an unassisted climb leave her alive but almost lost?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from launch to rescue, the failures in the search system, and the survival choices that kept her alive - and…
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