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My dad has the ELT rewired to the instrument panel, so that he can turn it on if he is going down. To manually turn on the ELT, one has to be able to get to the switch - in the back of the plane. The ELT can be destroyed, if the impact is severe enough or, like Joe said, it can malfunction.

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