I know with ELT's we have had so many false ones that unless there is a missing aircraft we just run a three person DF team to find it and shut it down.
The big problem here is that the SAR response didn't even go that far. If they had, they probably would have found the victims camped near the signal.
Today there are more details in
this story and
this story.
Seems pretty clear there was fatal miscommunication here between the RCMP and Golden SAR (which is a volunteer organization). Golden SAR says "we can't search without RCMP say-so," but they didn't notify RCMP in the first place?
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