"Mike Schumann" wrote in message
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If your aircraft is on fire, you need to land immediately. Availability
of fire / crash rescue resources is not an issue. Getting off the
aircraft as quickly as possible is the issue. Just look at what happened
with the Swissair flight over the atlantic, who took their sweet time
while the were researching where the smoke was coming from.


Then you don't need an airport at all.