[propbeanie]

Airplanes just arbitrarily crash during the game, and the "Survivor" mark on your chart may be rather old. They're sort of like a lifeboat when you sink a ship. There's a certain percentage of "survivors". When you see one, click on the icon with your mouse, and it'll give you a time of when the "report" came in. They will usually drift at one to two knots, in whichever direction the game decides they're going to travel. Now, if you have a mission where picking-up survivors is part of the patrol, then you can pick them up, as per some of the help threads for that (I can't find one right off). However, I've never been able to pick one up that wasn't part of a mission, so I don't know if that isn't part of the regular part of the game, or what. Someone else would have to answer that. But as far as finding them, they do drift. btw, you can accidentally run over them with your boat... jessayin'...