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Life rafts are strictly salt water activated ones that will only -- >> they actually are in life rafts. >> they are in the life rafts. now, there are some that are portable sometimes in the overhead bins you can remove and in another situation. but were told in training that if you have to do a crash landing on the ground, its a survivable situation and you have an elt available to you, which when the slide deployed youd have that because theyre slide rafts, youd grab that elt and urinate on it....

And jim tilmon. jim i want to ask you about the elt, the electronic locater transmitters, correct? >> thats correct. >> if this plane did hit water that would automatically go off which sends out various kinds of signals both to a satellite and over various frequencies, correct? >> actually if it hits almost anything. if it landed and hit the ground too hard, that thing would go off. its even used in light aircraft and business jets. its a means of locating an aircraft or its wreckage immediatel...