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C-47. In mufti it would be a DC3. I flew RC-47s (crew) in Việt Nam. Most airworthy plane that ever flew. On my first flight the co-pilot was new to the AC. We lost an angine (for a moment it turned out? and the other one hiccupped. Cope yelled into the mic to bail out we're going down! The two newbies, that's me and the analyst, went out the door which was easy a we flew with the doors replaced by cargo webbing on snap hooks. While we settled into the treetops the damned thing returned to base and landed. The copters came to get us about 45 minutes later.
I figured out that if that plane got hit and I was still alive it would land safely.