could not locate the beacon on the ground, on 121.5 MHz. Moscow Mission Control Centre said that they did not receive any signal from Romania on 406 MHz during the incident. Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale said that it could not precisely locate the crash site because it had not received GPS co-ordinates of Dr. Zamfir's phone from his mobile phone service provider, who provided only the cell, which stretched over an area of . Using its internal GPS reference, Dr. Zamfir's phone showed coordinates , at North of the actual site of the crash . The main controversy in this accident is why all methods used to locate the crash site failed, delaying the search and rescue teams. Investigation The Romanian Government announced the start of two investigations. The first would look at the accident and the second the procedures followed by the rescue teams, which reached the scene only several hours after the crash. In a preliminary investigation report, the Center for Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Security () (CIAS) said that the ELT distress beacon was type ARTEX C406-2. This beacon transmitting on frequencies 121.5 MHz, 243 MHz (now obsolete) and 406 MHz, using two different cables for antennas. The cable for 406 MHz antenna was not found at the crash scene, which explains why no signal received on 406 MHz. Political impact As a direct result of the crash of flight RFT111 and the response to it, the head of the national emergency response department, IGSU, resigned. One day later, also as a result, the Interior Minister Radu Stroe resigned. A passenger on board had died of hypothermia after surviving the crash because of the long emergency response. This has led to an overhaul of the country's emergency response methods. In response to an open letter, Gary Machado, Executive Director of European Emergency Number Association assigned blame for the situation on Neelie Kroes, who at the time of the incident had not enacted European-level regulation requiring provision of GPS co-ordinates in emergencies. The lack of provision of this critical information from the mobile company of the 112 caller to the emergency services was recognised as a major factor in the lethal delay in the rescue. References Aviation accidents and incidents in 2014 Aviation accidents and incidents in Romania Alba County January 2014 events in Romania