iPhone could be key to finding out where the Juan Fernández plane crash occurred

Programs that allow us to locate our cell phones have become extremely useful tools. Thanks to them, we can recover them if we've lost them or if they've been stolen. Now, a new function has been added: knowing where an accident has occurred.

That's right, yesterday the authorities in charge of the search and rescue teams for the Chilean Air Force CASA C-212 plane that crashed last Friday, September 2, in the Juan Fernández archipelago, killing all 21 passengers, reported that they had received information that an iPhone had emitted a signal from the area of ​​Carvajal Bay, west of Robinson Crusoe Island, which could help establish the location of the tragic event.

 

The device, which belonged to Joel Lizama, an athlete and explorer who was traveling as part of the Desafío Levantemos Chile (Let's Rebuild Chile Challenge), was triangulated by one of his relatives using Find My iPhone, a free service for the iOS operating system — compatible with iPhone 4, iPad or iPod Touch — that allows the device to be located in near real-time thanks to its built-in geolocation system.

This applies as long as you are in a place where there is a telephone signal, in this case, those emitted by the only antenna that exists in Juan Fernández and which belongs to the operator Movistar.

 

Once the program is set up on the account used to purchase applications, you can access a website that displays a map, the phone, and the date and time it was last tracked.

Unfortunately, the signal appeared sporadically and then disappeared permanently.

 

It has been noted that the team is expected to be recovered, thus providing more information about the tragic accident in which Felipe Camiroaga, host of the program Buenos Días a Todos, and Felipe Cubillos, creator of the Desafío Levantemos Chile foundation, also died.