How are airplane pilots trained to respond to ground distress signals (smoke, flares, rock formations)?

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How are airplane pilots trained to respond to ground distress signals (smoke, flares, rock formations)?

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Commercial airliners fly far too high to observe anything like that, and their job is to fly the plane. There is no special training, so if by some miracle a pilot spotted something like that, they’d do what they would for anything unusual and contact ATC.