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Brigade Quartermasters - Survival, Trekking and Outdoor Equipment

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An interesting and intriguing fact related to survival is that no only the fittest may be the ones that win, but also the smaller organisms. These - it seems - tend to have better chances of surviving all sorts of calamities; this can be empirically tested by looking at some certain facts and situations.

In 1990, a Boeing 707 of the Colombian company Avianca, crashed near John F. Kennedy airport, in New York. According to the NTSB investigation, the cause of the accident was that the aircraft ran out of fuel as it was on final approach to land in a very bad weather, and after being delayed by air control, flying for almost two hours in such conditions. The pilots finally told the controllers that they were running out of fuel, a couple of times, but were further delayed in an environment with bare minimum visibility, at night.

After so many delays, as the aircraft was trying to land in a second attempt, its engines flamed out and the whole thing went down, crashing in a Long Island neighbourhood, killing about half of its 161 occupants. However, the interesting fact is that despite this survival ratio of about 50%, children in the aircraft had a much lower fatality rate, because from the six that were onboard, only one was killed. This case may indeed be coincidence, but there are others.

In the case of massive extinctions, small organisms tend to have better survival chances than big ones: during the K-T event, 66,4 million years ago, dinosaurs got extinct, but not mammals, which were much smaller these days. In the case of other massive extinction processes, a similar patter arises: the small organisms survive, and then, they become dominant afterwards.

So there is a simple conclusion to this: regarding survival, smaller and simpler seem to be better, and this lesson should also be applied when purchasing survival gear and equipment.