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I wonder if it is better to stay with the plane crash rather than to leave it, like the article mentions ? Maybe if the crash is in a jungle like the last surv

I wonder if it is better to stay with the plane crash rather than to leave it, like the article mentions ? Maybe if the crash is in a jungle like the last survivor, it is better to leave your landing crater and find help.

axiosgunnar 6y ago
Perhaps it really is better to stay? I assume that authorities will be searching for the plane and will usually find it in <10 days if it crashes on land, and you also have a chance to find some edible food in the wreckage?
pugworthy 6y ago
It depends on where you land really. Assuming you read the whole article, take the account of the survivor who crashed in the Amazon rain forest for example. If she'd stayed put, she'd have died. Secondary comment RE: that particular crash story. We got Reader's Digest when I was a kid, and that story was a "Drama in Real Life" story in an early 70's issue.
pugworthy 6y ago
From the Wikipedia page on the Amazon rain forest crash... The sole survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke. Despite a broken collar bone, a deep gash to her right arm, an eye injury, and concussion, she was able to trek through the dense Amazon jungle for 10 days and found shelter in a hut. Local lumberjacks found her and took her by canoe back to civilization. It was later determined that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial crash but died awaiting rescue. It's just one case, but in the case of isolation, moving seems smarter than staying put.
- wahern 6y ago
  Isn't the usual advice from Search & Rescue professionals to stay put? For example, > “It’s best to stay in one place because the searchers will get to that place,” Strong said. Moving just a mile creates a search area of three square miles, Strong said. Move two miles, and the search area expands to 12 square miles. Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-the-woods-stay-put-says-outdoors-expert/ https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-th... I imagine that advice becomes better every year, as response times improve. Of course, if there's no reason to think rescuers would be able to fix your initial location to any reasonable precision, then I guess you have to use your head.
  - 1shooner 6y ago
    This assumes rescuers know where to start looking. The survivors of Uruguayan AF flight 571, described in the book Alive, waited 2 months at the crash site before hiking 10 days to find help (losing 8 people to avalanche and resorting to cannibalism in the mean time).

axiosgunnar 6y ago

Perhaps it really is better to stay? I assume that authorities will be searching for the plane and will usually find it in <10 days if it crashes on land, and you also have a chance to find some edible food in the wreckage?

pugworthy 6y ago

It depends on where you land really. Assuming you read the whole article, take the account of the survivor who crashed in the Amazon rain forest for example. If she'd stayed put, she'd have died. Secondary comment RE: that particular crash story. We got Reader's Digest when I was a kid, and that story was a "Drama in Real Life" story in an early 70's issue.

pugworthy 6y ago

From the Wikipedia page on the Amazon rain forest crash... The sole survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke. Despite a broken collar bone, a deep gash to her right arm, an eye injury, and concussion, she was able to trek through the dense Amazon jungle for 10 days and found shelter in a hut. Local lumberjacks found her and took her by canoe back to civilization. It was later determined that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial crash but died awaiting rescue. It's just one case, but in the case of isolation, moving seems smarter than staying put.

wahern 6y ago
Isn't the usual advice from Search & Rescue professionals to stay put? For example, > “It’s best to stay in one place because the searchers will get to that place,” Strong said. Moving just a mile creates a search area of three square miles, Strong said. Move two miles, and the search area expands to 12 square miles. Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-the-woods-stay-put-says-outdoors-expert/ https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-th... I imagine that advice becomes better every year, as response times improve. Of course, if there's no reason to think rescuers would be able to fix your initial location to any reasonable precision, then I guess you have to use your head.
- 1shooner 6y ago
  This assumes rescuers know where to start looking. The survivors of Uruguayan AF flight 571, described in the book Alive, waited 2 months at the crash site before hiking 10 days to find help (losing 8 people to avalanche and resorting to cannibalism in the mean time).