From tessasod@air.on.ca Wed Aug 01 15:19:35 2001
To: <misc_survivalism_moderated@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [misc_survivalism_moderated] surviving Aircraft crashes
From: "Tessa" <tessasod@air.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:19:35 -0400
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call that "Rule Number One : If you haven't been found in 72 hours, they're
going to call off the search. Go for help on your own."

I'm going to disagree with rule number 1. First of course it depends on
where you go down, countrywise I mean.
Speaking from a search and rescue prospective we search as long as possible,
as long as there's hope and evidence to go on. Searches have gone 18 days
and more. Basicly if a plane goes down an air search is started along the
flight path and expanding on either side of that flight path.
A helicopter went down in Labrador a few years ago, the crew figured they'd
walk out, the chopper was found, the crew never has been. It's much easier
to spot an aircraft wreckage and survivors campsite from the air then to
find survivors who may have gone anywhere.
Planes have certainly disappeared in our area despite air and ground
searches, mostly because they went into the water and left no evidence.
There is hope that eventually something will come to the surface to indicate
where it is.
If you survive a crash stay put if at all possible. creating some sort of
signal. A signal fire can be seen by the high flyers and can be spotted by
small airplanes 25 miles away.
Signal fire
Make a tripod of poles approximately head high where they meet.
at around knee height place a platform of sticks. This is easiest done if
the poles you choose have plenty of limbs sticking out.
On your platform place dry twigs and lots! of birch bark allowing some of
the bark to hang down between the sticks to be lit from beneath.
Next begin hanging evergreen boughs on your tripod, use boughs with forks
and hang them from the ends of the tripod poles, do this all the way around,
so now your centre is hollow except for the bark and twigs.
Next push evergreen boughs into the centre between the ones you've hung. Try
to do this evenly from all sides and be sure you have stuffed the hollow as
full as is possible.
Make 3 of these signals and when you hear an aircraft light the bark of the
first then move on to the others. A good signal fire takes less than 45
seconds for the smoke to clear the tree tops.
Canadian pilots and I'd imagine american as well are required to report
smokes and pilots are made aware when there's a search on in case they
happen to see something.



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