Man Was Rescued in a One in Million Chance but What Discovered Was Horrifying

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links to another story which links to a another [1] that gets this close to stating just how firm the "tie" was:

> Though genetic genealogy, DNA samples from crime scenes are specially sequenced and then uploaded to public DNA databases for comparison with the hope of finding a possible relative of the suspect. From there, investigators work through family trees to eventually come up with the suspect's identity.

Sounds even more subject to "find the data we want" than the "ShotSpotter" folks.

[1] https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/colorado-cold-case-...

Would never happen today - by the time you've convinced the cabin crew to talk to the captain, and they've got past the cockpit door security protocol, the long/lat of the plane would be so far off that there'd be nothing of value to convey to the ground.

But would you need the captain to get lon/lat coordinates and raise an alarm?

You’d video the SOS signal and upload the geotagged movie to Twitter.

Note to self: if I ever spot an SOS from a plane, first take note of the exact time.

Edit: actually as below commenter points out, better yet, take a video. Are modern phones able to also capture the compass direction of the shot in metadata?

Whats with the clickbait title?

Did you read the article? It's a stack of the kinds of narrative writing cliches middle schoolers are taught to avoid.

rescued guy who ended up being a criminal

This is the sort of thing that should tell people there are no such thing as miracles, just luck.

they would say god work in mysterious ways

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