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... ok. There are a LOT of boats in the world. How long could it possibly take to get the nearest one anywhere a plane goes down, anywhere in the world? Five mi
by rochester8 12y ago
... ok. There are a LOT of boats in the world. How long could it possibly take to get the nearest one anywhere a plane goes down, anywhere in the world? Five minutes? Ten?
- marcosdumay 12y agoWell, sorry about the uninformative answer. I was in a rush... Anyway, 6 minutes (not 16) is the time people are usually expected to still be alive in a plane after it gets on fire. Airports spend a lot to get cars on their area fast enough for rescue, there's simple no chance boats can get anywhere in the oceans that fast - when a plane falls on the water boats need days to get there. And all "the nearest boat" will do is catching fire together with the plane, you need well equipped boats with trained people. Anyway, I'm having a hard time trying to imagine a scenario where airplane tracking fails, but people are still alive. I'm about to claim that's currently impossible, but that'd be just asking for a counterexample to happen and prove me wrong... When planes disappear, it's because they were either completely destroyed in air or hit the ocean at a huge speed.