Practically speaking, it's worth remembering Burt Rutan's experience:
> Wednesday, May 17, 2000
>
> Anchorage, Alaska -- Five adventurers -- including the aviation legend Dick
> Rutan -- were rescued from the North Pole > after their biplane broke through
> the ice and sank more than 13,000 feet to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean....
That's of course one of his high-tech composite canard aircraft, not
an old style over-and-under biplane.
By the way, anyone know if he had an American flag on board the
aircraft? Odds are it probably "flew" off laterally underwater rather
than going straight down, but I suppose those Russian submersible
operators _might_ find he'd beaten them to the bottom under the pole.
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