Canmoore

There is a passenger jet carrying 6 tourists over the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Nunavut, when a freak storm developes, the pilot looses visability and sends out a distress signal, just before the pilot forced to make a crash landing just off northern shore of Grinnell island on the pack ice, around 400pm.
It is the middle of February, the temperature is -32, the windchill makes it feel like -60. With raging winds and blinding snow.
Two passengers and the pilot died on impact, 4 others are unconcious. The plane has lost power and the temperature in thecabin is dropping rapidly.

The plane was out of Iqaluit, Air traffic control in Iqaluit declare a missing plane, after frequent hails to the plane fail. And rescue team is assembled.

Now.. You are in command of this rescue operation

What would you do in this situation? Look at the geography of the area, are there any local villages? what equipment do you have available (yes you may have to do some research for this )

*Remember, that there is a major storm over the islands which is making it to dangerous for aircraft to fly. Also the pack ice is a fortress of jagged ice, which limits mobility.

Officer of Engineers

Why don't you just watch the movie?

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Chimo

SnowLeopard

>why don't you just watch the movie?

It does sound like that, doesn't it? And there has been a movie about it, about a real incident that happened like that.

It's called "Ordeal in the Arctic" and tells of the C-130 that crashed in 1991 near Alert, the weather station on Elsmere Island, about as far north one can go and still be on land.
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("Don't start with me, Captain."--airman
"I'll always start with you."--Captain De Groot, MD, referring to the survival count muster, talking after they had been rescued, (w,stte), "Ordeal in the Arctic")

Canmoore

oh come on now, ruin the fun why dont you

TopHatter

Tell the survivors to quickly form a soccer team and eat each other.




Sorry, couldn't resist.

SnowLeopard

Sorry! I apologize. But polar activities aren't my thing, mostly a desert person here, so I shall leave it to others.
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("I can understand why I got tagged for this mission, I pulled that duty in Thule, but you? You get dizzy if there is too much ice in your drink."--Boomer to Starbuck, (wtte), Battlestar Galactica "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero")

Edgeplay_cgo

[quote=TopHatter;273632]Tell the survivors to quickly form a soccer team and eat each other.
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Then they're doomed. Those were RUGBY players.

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- Dennis
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
-Sir Winston Churchill

TopHatter

Close enough

Parihaka

Splutter cough

TopHatter

What do I care about sports?

(Except the bedroom decathlon of course )