Help! My lander is 8km underground

[Jokurr]

So I recently completed my first manned landing on Duna, where I brought a lander which will also return my Kerbals to orbit, and a separate rover for them to explore the surface in. Not long after landing, my Kerbals got into their rover and went off on an excursion. Little to my knowledge, it appears my lander landed in quicksand, and is now ~8.4 km underneath the surface of Duna.

So how can I get out of this predicament? Not sure if this bug is all that rare, has anyone dealt with this problem before?. I’m guessing I’ll need to enable console commands to disable clipping and infinite fuel? What would those commands be?

EDIT: I should also mention that this lander doesn't have any sort of ability to be piloted without a Kerbal inside, is there another command to allow me to control it without anyone inside?

Edited May 9, 2013 by Jokurr

[rognal]

You will probably have to edit the save file to get it onto the surface again.

[Jokurr]

What exactly would I be editing in the save file?

[Tada]

Look at Scott Manely video about that It is very easy

[Jokurr]

Got a link to it? I can't seem to find it.

[Tada]

[Tw1]

I have a few things just under the surface on Kerbin I'm progressively getting rid of, but I've lost a few kerbals who slipped under the surface of Minmus. It's not incredibly uncommon.

[Jokurr]

Thanks for the video, that helped me find the file I need but the video only deals with orbits which doesn't help me. I've figured out how to adjust my altitude to just above the surface but upon loading my craft instantly explodes, don't know why. Upon lifting my ship up, I've also noticed it is upside down for some reason (I couldn't rotate my camera when I was 8km under so I didn't notice before). I'm not sure what parameters I need to change in order to get this to work.

Does anyone know how to rotate the ship? Or why my ship instantly explodes?

[FluffyBob]

Never lost anything but debris to the sub-kerbanium Kraken, but when I landed some Kerbals at the Duna Face last week they found nothing because it was sitting about a hundred meters below the surface.

[Jokurr]

I managed to get it out by editing the save to above ground level and then using the debug menu (alt + F12) to turn off crash damage.