"If the beacon is operating... that's a good sign as a heavy landing can tend to prevent the beacon working, " Steve Rendle from the Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ), told Radio New Zealand.

BBC: Antarctic search for missing plane carrying Canadians

Where a huge, neon Asahi beer sign was once a beacon, there now looms what can only be described as an objet, a kind of golden beet resting on a black obsidian-like pedestal (which doubles as a restaurant).

CNN: AFTER THE BANG