Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

We will stay with the crashed aircraft, because its a lot easier for rescuers to find a plane than individuals; given the weather conditions and business apparel, hiking out is likely to be unsurvivable.

The extra clothes will be donned immediately, with the newspapers used as an insulating layer around the torso. Head-coverings will have to be improvised - I shall make mine out of newspaper if I can't spare a garment for this purpose.

As the plane hasn't caught fire, we will stay inside it, to cut down the windchill and keep the snow off. We will use the tarp to mend a large hole in the fusilage of a small plane, or to section off an area of a larger plane to make it easier to warm up with our body heat. We shall huddle.

Because we're in business attire, we haven't suitable footwear for navigating deep snow or skidding across frozen creeks and risk falls, frostbite and death from exposure. We do need a fire but we can't light it inside the downed plane. We will send someone out to gather branches and greenery (there should be pine at the latitudes which are typical of those temperatures).

We will light a fire as soon as its daylight and put on greenery to create lots of smoke. Our plane's non-arrival at its airport will have caused the alarm to be raised, and they'll have our flight plan, so they'll know approx where to look anyway. The search may not be able to start until daylight, however.

We have lots of ways of starting fire, such as using the flint in the lighter to spark into the wire wool or the crisco, or wetting something with the 100% alcohol to catch a spark. We will aim to conserve energy, and eat the chocolate slowly (and possibly eat the crisco) to keep up metabolism and thus body heat.

We may also have metal things which can reflect light to attract the aircraft, such as the axe blade (might be shiny, might not be) and the crisco can will probably be shiny on the base/ underside of the lid.

The air map can be folded up and used as a bowl to gather snow, which we will allow to thaw for drinking water. It will serve no practical purpose for navigation because we're not navigating anywhere. We can use the compass as a toy to while away the hours.

Someone will take turns keeping watch with the gun in case the bears come back. It's be a lucky shot to kill a bear with a handgun, but it might just frighten them away. Anyway, if they've eaten the plane's seats, headrest covers and wee blankies and all the peanuts, they've probably got terrible indigestion.

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NewShadow wrote: »

Bears (which have now left the area completely) ate them :rotfl:

Bears consumed the fuel in the tanks, and the wiring looms?

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Bears consumed the fuel in the tanks, and the wiring looms?

They're very very hungry.

I'm annoyed about them eating the seats. With the seats still in the scenario, I can fashion my headgear from a headrest cover/ a seat cover and we can put foam from a seat on our fire to send up black smoke to raise the alarm.

Also, wouldn't the bears be hibernating at that time of year?:cool:

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Also, wouldn't the bears be hibernating at that time of year? :cool:

Good point.

So, since the bears haven't consumed parts of the aircraft, we can drain a bit of the fuel, to refill the lighter, and cannibalise the wiring looms, for wire to use as strappings, and, if necessary, to make snares.

The battery/batteries could be salvaged, along with one of the external lights, to make a signalling lamp.

Indeed, the radio may still work, or, if not, there should be an emergency radio beacon, which we can activate.

GreyQueen

Bob, if I'm ever on a downed plane above the 48th parallel, I'd like you along.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

Bob, if I'm ever on a downed plane above the 48th parallel, I'd like you along.

Don't say that GQ. You know how he feels about you. He might just arrange it.

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NewShadow

I've never met such a bunch of cheating cheaters :rotfl:

GreyQueen

NewShadow wrote: »

I've never met such a bunch of cheating cheaters :rotfl:

When the S hits the F, it will be the devious cheating cheaters who survive, count on it.:p

jk0, I was thinking if it gets really bad, I could shoot Bob and make a good meal for the rest of us. Probably with fava beans and a pine nut accomanyment.

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NewShadow wrote: »

I've never met such a bunch of cheating cheaters :rotfl:

Were not cheating.

We're simply applying logic, to the scenario you described.