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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 we're told in training that if you have to do a crash landing on the ground, it's a survivable situation and you have an elt available to you, which when the slide deployed you'd have that because they're slide rafts, you'd grab that elt and urinate on it. >> in order to get the salt to go off and signal go off. >> exactly. vhf emergency frequency a...

And jim tilmon. jim i want to ask you about the elt, the electronic locater transmitters, correct? >> that's 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. it's even used in light aircraft and business jets. it's a means of locating an aircraft or its wreckage immediately after it has struck something out there that's solid. >> so les, the fact that we haven't heard...