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Originally Posted by Stephen
On the Alaska example, TheSquealer is quite correct in that landing an aircraft on a short runway is a very different challenge than taking off again -- but I've been to Saba as well, and when it's a choice of "fly or die" wishful thinking has a certain anti-gravity effect  |
The worst experience i ever had actually was being in a twin engine Navajo and as we climbed over a mountain range, there were these very loud bangs. really loud. Like muffled gun shots. Boom!..... Boom!...... Boom!... then nothing..... then 10 minutes later Boom!.
Pretty scary to be in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of winter in a plane with a poor glide ratio, in the mountains feeling like at any moment, its going to have some sort of catastrophic failure.
Turned out, we had a few 1000.00 of groceries and bags of potato chips were exploding as the cabin pressure decreased.
I would also add that if someone wanted a commercial jet for nefarious purposes as people suggest, its far easier to just steal one from a defunct airline, a company/private party or one that was repossessed and parked at some airport in some country no one cares about and so on. The world is littered with them.. Then its just a missing plane that another creditor might have taken possession of. It's not a practical solution to steal and hide a loaded commercial passenger plane and make it a world news story and attract every governments attention, endless searches, have military's searching, satellites searching etc.