Small-plane pilots regularly compete in "message drop" competitions, dropping heavy weights (for which air resistance can be ignored) from their low-flying planes and scoring points for having the weights land close to a target. a plane 70 m above the ground is flying directly toward a target at 44 m/s . at what distance from the target should the pilot drop the weight?

plane is flying at an altitude of 70 m

now if an object is dropped from it then time taken by object to drop on ground will be given as

here initial speed in vertical direction must be zero as plane is moving horizontal

given that

y = 70 m

a = 9.8 m/s^2

now since the plane is moving horizontally with speed v = 44 m/s

so the horizontal distance moved by the object will be

so the distance moved by the box is 166.3 m

i believe the answer is a hope it and is correct