She believes if she can catch one, they could send a distress message to the outside world.

Their distress message had stopped abruptly about an hour before.

The crew are trying to send a distress message out.

My office received a distress message over the radio from Jenny.

The last time one of you was in here, it was to send a distress message.

Since no distress message had been sent, nobody even knew that they had crashed.

Having a distress message come in on the company data-link is highly unusual.

The two radio operators nonetheless continued sending out distress messages almost to the very end.

"They seem to have sent some kind of distress message into the West."

"We'll wait unless this place gets hot or we get a distress message from them."