You are very likely right. I just like to give them the maximum benefit of the doubt. I don't really think thirty years would be enough and I just kinda skip over the ridiculous business of trying to justify Escape. BUT...
Of course, a clever fool could explain it. We have one batch of radioactive mutants in the underground. How about another weird carry over from before the nuclear war? Maybe the ship was raised and put in flying condition by a pack of surviving repair robots, masterless since the war and with nothing to do but repair one another. So, these robots just happen to live in a hidden bunker on the shores of the body of water the ship sunk in... And, they are overjoyed to the extent their rusty circuits can be overjoyed, to have a shiny, if wet, piece of technology to tinker with. Heck Dr. whatsisname, while puttering in the zone may have found the ship repaired, refueled and pointed at the sky. "Holy Lawgiver, I oughta get Zira and Corneleus out here for a little test drive."
Of course, for all we know there are any number of old science fiction cliches running around what we only know as The Planet of the Apes. Chuds, Morlocks, Molemen, Mermen, talking horses. Pity they all got blown up when Taylor hit the big red plunger.
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