Chilean airplane crash located via Apple's Find My iPhone

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A number of questions quickly come to mind...

1. Is there mobile data service in the Juan Fernandez Islands? And does it work that far out at sea? At the required accuracy?

2. How could Find My iPhone locate the phone if it was (presumably, at this point) underwater?

Yes, the story has a bit of an urban legend smell about it. Doesn't it?

Or journalistic laziness.

I wish it was true... (even though you'd then have to deal with the lot saying that the iPhone being on caused the crash).

But it just doesn't add up... it's not like Find my iPhone is magic.