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Old 28th January 2005 | 14:00
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Genghis the Engineer
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Select land flaps, bring the aircraft back to just above the stall, turn VERY slowly to as-near into wind as your knowledge allows, hold the wings level. Then if it's IMC to the ground you've maximised your chances of surviving the impact. Also into-wind, you'll cover the least terrain, and thus minimise the space you fly through in which there may be any high obstacles.

Then start looking very hard and praying for a field in front when the ground becomes visible.

I hope that if it happened to me I'd have the presence of mind to think of the first half as well as the last.

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