The signal was picked up by five satellites, triggering an alert to a ground station in Cyprus that confirmed the identity of the Airbus A320 and narrowed the possible crash area to about three miles.
Anything can cause a crash – a narrow pinch point in the road, the fight for position as the peloton head towards a tough section of the race or a stray spectator wanting a closer look at the action – one memorable crash at a Tour de France stage finish in 1994 was caused by a policeman stepping out into the road to take a photo.
Single crashes caused 953838%) injury cases, of which at least 27 had crashed into narrow objects, such as trees or light poles.
One air force helicopter crashed in narrow, steep Kedar Valley, killing 20 on board.
He and his nurse had crashed through narrow openings in Stygian igloos and found entire families frozen to the floor.
Although the gender pay gap had narrowed slightly since the crash, this had not translated into a more equal employment landscape.
Heatley, the 22-year-old Thrashers All-Star, survived the one-car crash on a narrow Atlanta road Sept. 29 that left Snyder in a coma for six days before he died.
Farther up the coast, at Pierre & Friends, a tiki-style bar of thatched bamboo nestled beneath a steep embankment, waves crash against a narrow stretch of rocky sand as a 30-something crowd snaps photos and sips bottles of Almaza, a Lebanese beer.
A crash in a narrow portion of the course involving France's Blel Kadri caused further havoc, leaving some 20 riders - among them Frank Schleck and defending world champion Thor Hushovd - temporarily trapped as service cars and mechanics struggled to reach them.
Just as a population that explodes in a narrow ecological niche may well crash later, it appears that repetitive communications are more discounted than emulated by others.
