"Happy Dog" wrote in message
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Smiley acknowledged.

You're missing the point.

Fifteen seconds gets you and everyone else a safe distance away.
Every time.

False. You have no way of knowing whether "Fifteen seconds gets you and
everyone else a safe distance away". Even assuming you and everyone else
can exit the vehicle in that time (and that's far from assured), train
wrecks send lots of stuff flying, including entire train cars. I certainly
wouldn't want to be within even a 15 second's run of a train wreck, and in
real life, you'd have used up a significant chunk of that 15 seconds just
getting out of the vehicle.

In any case, it's a SINGLE HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION. My parenthetical point
that you so joyously chose to attempt to pick apart was simply that, while
generally speaking fuel exhaustion in a car is less of a problem than in an
airplane, one can theorize comparative situations in which the airplane
scenario is more desirable than the car scenario.

Frankly, if you can't imagine a dozen such scenarios, you either aren't
trying, or you have no imagination.

Pick a plane you would rather not be flying dead stick.

Why? What's that got to do with anything? Pick any random airplane, other
than a glider, and I'd "rather not be flying dead stick". Airplanes work a
lot better when the engine is running.

Pete