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There are far less plane accidents or plane break downs then car accidents or car breakdowns.


If the engine stalls on a plane, you still have time and distance to glide it to a safe area. Plus everyone in Alaska has a gun or five, even pilots. Plus planes get highest priority if it breaks down and crash lands some where in the middle of no where vs a car breakdown. Unless you are US president and your car breaks down. But then you have a convoy of 5 cars and trunks loaded with enough firepower to start a small war.

Even assuming it was an engine failure, rather than another failure, the aircraft still has to find a safe area to land - that means possibly quite long and flat - not a lot of that about in those parts of the world.
Even if the people on board are relatively unhurt, they still have to stay alive long enough for rescue - that's not a given as a small aircraft can be very hard to spot, even if there isn't a snowfall.
That's another point, if the weather turns bad, in an aircraft, you're in big trouble, whereas in a vehicle it isn't that much of a problem, unless it gets quite deep.

In either case, a firearm is a basic safety tool, along with spare belts (and tools to change them), snow shovels and chains, flares, food (which will attract bears), water, small stove and spare fuel, etc.
Better to plan for the worst and not need it than need it and not have it.