§ 97.403
You’re overthinking this. It says nothing about method. If a station is available to you, normal communication systems are not available, and there is an immediate threat to life or property, then use the station. Simple as that.
This is a clarifying rule and it’s important to look at the intent, which effectively boils down to “if it’s truly an emergency, rules can be ignored”, even if it’s structured semantically in a way that the definitions do not necessarily agree.