A (good) scenario

[a-4-year-old]

Your plane crashed in the canadian wilderness, the plane was burning when you woke up by a rock, someone pulled you there. You wake lying next to some other injured passengers. You don't have any serious injuries, so you and 2-3 other people will have to divvy up the work.

after searching bodies, you have:
Extra sets of cloths (shirts pants socks and undergarmets)
lint
a paperclip
the crashed plane (everything that could burn, did burn)
a disposable razor

There, I gave you tools to survive, a non-retarded setting, now you make a plan. it is pretty open ended.

[The Geologist]

Extra clothing initially goes to covering up injured passengers/those unable to move.

Lint can be used as a fire starter after looking for some twigs and larger branches.  Even a little bit can go a long way if you build the fire properly.  I'm not sure if the paper clip could be used for a spark or anything..I'd be more likely to use some rocks.  Fire could also be count for cauterizing wounds if need be.

Crashed plane fuselage  is useful even if there aren't any burnable materials there.  Could be used as a makeshift windbreak or a sleigh for carrying the wounded. 

Razor for cutting cloth/making bandages, as well as preparing meat.  Not a tool for treating wounds or anything heavy duty.  Any meat to be had (hunting or cannibalism) would be easier to get off the bone with this.

With shelter/fire secure, it's just a question of knowing where you are or not.  Properly equipped planes/individuals may have emergency locater beacons, but that's not really in your scenario, so...waiting is a good option.  Especially with a smoky fire going.

[darkangel]

with the lint and the paperclip i`ll could made a fire after that with the fire on, go and look for some food fishes or stuff then cook it and there u go a good meal for a long road u have to travel to find ppl

[a-4-year-old]

With shelter/fire secure, it's just a question of knowing where you are or not.  Properly equipped planes/individuals may have emergency locater beacons, but that's not really in your scenario, so...waiting is a good option.  Especially with a smoky fire going.

I would have used the burned out plane as a shelter with a fire outside, or used the pieces to make one.

Bend the paperclip, make it something useful:

{HINT/PARTIAL SPOILER}
fishing

[The Philanthropist]

Do we have any idea what part of the Canadian wilderness we are over?

[Espadon]

I'd realize one of the guys was actually MacGuyver. Then I'll give him

Extra sets of cloths (shirts pants socks and undergarmets)
lint
a paperclip
the crashed plane (everything that could burn, did burn)
a disposable razor

and in a little bit, we'd be riding on a AT-ST down the mountain.

[Graham]

You can make a compass out of the paper clip guys...

[a-4-year-old]

Do we have any idea what part of the Canadian wilderness we are over?

you knew you were flying somewhere over it, so no.

[Mangled*]

Not much detail about the terrain around us... Any nearby rivers? Some water would be nice, I'm parched.

[a-4-year-old]

I don't know, neither do you, you should send someone to look for water.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

Bend the paperclip, make it something useful:

{HINT/PARTIAL SPOILER}
fishing

Well, that would depend on available supplies (as far as attracting the target) and a suitable environment.  I doubt it would be as useful as you think.

[PapaSurf]

Burn everything and create as large a fire as possible (controlled of course).  The idea is to get rescued/noticed as fast as possible.  The longer you are out there, the chance you have of surviving become exponentially smaller, especially with injured people and as you listed, such a useless set of equipment.  I hope I'm not misinterpreting "surviving" as "surviving with no hope of rescue" but time is the greatest enemy in this scenario. 

Clothes/Lint should be used to start a fire first.  If anything is left over, use it to bandage anything that would result in massive bloodloss/infection.  Do not bother with broken bones etc. It would be waste and doing so would not increase their productivity or chance of survival.

In situations such as these, as cruel as it sounds, prioritizing the healthy is the best method of surviving.  Any food, water and useful materials go through them first. 

Water is essential.  Finding a source of water is second only to keeping the fire running, and can take top priority in certain cases (Fire becomes uncontrolled, critical dehydration etc.) I'd probably send out 1 person to find water, 1-2 people to catch any food (however unlikely, fishing is possible if water is found, but that itself would solve many problems.)  Keep 1-2 people back to keep the fire running and occasionally check on the sick.  Assuming reasonably healthy people, they should be able to survive without food for about a week, for realistic purposes, bring that to 4-5 days when the biggest pussy passes out. 

But if you're not found/saved by then, it's practically game over.  That's how I would do it.  Probably not the best way, but it seems logical to me.

[The Geologist]

You can make a compass out of the paper clip guys...

Oh yea!  I forgot all about that.  Durr.

[Mangled*]

I don't know, neither do you, you should send someone to look for water.

/find water

Did we find water? Are you God in this scenario?

[Rhombus]

You can make a compass out of the paper clip guys...

If you don't know where you are, a compass isn't that much use.

[Hair|Trigger]

What i would do, I'd probably use any icicles i can find on the trees, and break them off and attach the paperclip onto the end, and place it up in the air and listen to the icicle ringing, and tune the paperclip so that it picks up radio waves, then i would talk into the icicle and transmit the waves to the nearest snow partol station and call for help, i would be able to tell my global location by Surveying the scene, looking for any magnetic objects.  I find a discarded laptop on the plane, the laptop itself has no satellite internet, so i just play solitare on it for a while, before taking out the battery which can be used to create a magnetic field.  The magnetic field generated by the laptop battery will spin a small satelite dish which i salvaged from the fuselage of the plane, i will rig the laptop screen up to the satellite dish thing i made.  it will be the interface for the tempary radar station.  when i was playing solitare on the laptop before, i also extracted several drivers, and animation systems from a couple of games that were on the laptop's hard drive, i took some windows firmware aswell. With this sensetive data, i did the following:
a) I extracted an element of the "windows installer" engine and used it to peice together the rest of my firmware for the radar.
b) With the animations i extracted from some of the games on the laptop, i made an animation interface that looks like a radar dashboard, and the animation is a spinning polygon.  The spinning polygon will be the radar sweeper thing, which will spin in conjunction with my satellite dish.
c) I put these items into the laptop's startup registery, making it so that it would log onto my radar dashboard instead of logging onto windows.
d) I also extracted a special driver for a bluetooth adaptor and i modified it, and combined it with sound recording firmware so that it picks up the sonic vibrations of objects, and landmarks inparticular, and it had a range of 5000 Miles, so any object within 5000 Miles would appear on the radar screen.  The firmware for the sound recorder required that i connected a microphone, which is what the radar dish serves as.  And the bluetooth module would simply increase the reliability and frequency of the radar.
e) Finally, i connected the hard drive, the monitor and the psu to a universal swith that i salvaged form the plane's cockpit.  the switch would lead to the Battery which spun the radar dish.

I had to act quickly as the battery was starting to run low, i could tell because i extracted the driver for the battery monitor on the laptop. so i could monitor the battery life from my radar dashboard.

I switched on my device, and the screen lit up with the radar's Green light.  Instantly it came up with a bunch of landmarks in the area.  I recogsed some of these landmarks, they were schools, buildings, and clock towers from citys.  With all this information, i measured my distance from me to each of the cities that had been detected. 

With this information i was able to tell the Person on the other end of the crystal Radio my exact location.

And now that help is on the way, i still need to survive somehow right?  so i will use the extra cloting and undergarments to make a comfortable blanket, then i would make a couch out of several of the airplane's seats, it was very comfortable indeed.  Now what do we need?  I got some of my fellow survivours to go and pull out some of the windows on the plane, and i would combine all these windows to make a large 199cm Screen.  It was going to be a television.  For the projector... well i just got the one out of the laptop monitor, which i didnt need anymore cos people were already searching for us, and i placed it behind the screen.  I then got a TV tuner which happened to be inside the laptop, and i attached it to the projector via my super radar antena.  to complete my creation, i used some more fuselage from the plane to use as a back-panel kind of thing.  when i connected the antena and TV tuner, the screen lit up instantly and displayed a half finished episode of the simpsons.  Ah, see, we don't even have to miss out on our favourite programs thanks to my SUPER GUENIUS tendacy.

That is how i would handle the situation. 
Well yeah i wouldnt be able to do ALL of that, well not any of it actually, but yeah at least i'm alive right?  heh

just for the record, all of the survivors were chicks, with very large boo.. um...
...Food supplies.  so i didnt have to go out hunting anything.     

[Ãœberschall]

You can make a compass out of the paper clip guys...

Sure? A piece of metal doesn't magically start being a compass, I'm pretty sure you'd need to magnetize it first and I don't see a magnet in the list.

[Graham]

You can make a compass out of the paper clip guys...

Sure? A piece of metal doesn't magically start being a compass, I'm pretty sure you'd need to magnetize it first and I don't see a magnet in the list.

I think there is an airplane near you... airplanes have tons of random electronics. I would look for some speakers first, they are probably the easiest to get too and the easiest to pull out.

[The Geologist]

Wouldn't you just need to impart some kind of charge to it?  I thought the trick was to rub the paperclip over some wool or something similar before suspending it.

[Graham]

Wouldn't you just need to impart some kind of charge to it?  I thought the trick was to rub the paperclip over some wool or something similar before suspending it.

I think you can do it that way but I learned to make it with a magnet.