So do you think he would have made it if he went costal ?
If that was directed at me, I don't know, that would call for speculation that I am not qualified to make. I only comment on things I can prove with a reasonable degree of accuracy and certainty.
The question I repeated was one where an individual was required to answer based on their opinion of a binary statement.
In my opinion, one thing that should hold true was the failure of the vacuum pump, and the subsequent loss of AH/DI. Whether the PIC would have been equipped to deal with such a failure in a different geographical location is purely speculative.