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Old 20th Sep 2012, 13:24
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Fuji Abound
 
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Other than a ground incident you are not likely to survive a plane crash! They tend to be fatal!
Pace - are you sure?

I am always surprised when I read the reports how many aircraft that "crash" do not include fatalities.

I suppose it depends what you mean by "crash" and if you take a crash being flying into the ground in some totally uncontrolled way or flying into the side of a mountain in IMC then you are unlikely to survive.

Even that said I recall the chap recently who ran into fog over the Downs without any instrument training. He kept the thing reasonably straight and level and was found upright in a field on top of the Downs having slid along the surface! Exceptional I know, and a very lucky chap indeed.
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