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Old 31st August 2008 | 16:14
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englishal

 
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In my experience (Math(s) aside), 10:1 is realistic for most light aeroplanes.

The main thing is that they normally don't drop like a brick. The pilot often messes up the emergency landing though, but that is another story. I see on the BBC website today (31.08) someone in Devon made a sucessful emergency landing into a marsh / boggy land or all places. Good one
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