12 hours of survival war on the wing of the falling plane! – Cyprus Newspaper

The pilot and two daughters of the plane in Alaska were able to survive in the cold up to minus 20s. Three people waited to be rescued on the wing of the plane for 12 hours.

Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser, who was reported to be missing on Sunday, was on a tour of Skilak Lake on Soldotna on the Kenai Peninsula.

Waiting to be saved for 12 hours in the wing of the plane, which is understood to have fallen
The pilot and two young daughters were found by the national guards of the Alaska army.

Pilors, who took action to look for a loss plane without a signal signal, headed towards Lake Tustumena near the end of the glacier and saw the wreck of the plane.

Speaking to the Associated Press, Terry Godes said, görmek Seeing this broke my heart, but as I approached down, I could see that there were three people above the wing. ”

“They were alive, they were reacting and moving, G said Godes, and said that they waved to him.

They waited in the cold up to minus 20s

Alaska state police, three people were taken to hospital with wounds that do not present life -threatening wounds.

Godes said that many miracles took place from the aircraft to the sinking, the survivors to remain above the wing and to survive at temperatures falling to minus 20s at night.

« They spent a long, cold, dark and wet night on the wing of a plane they didn’t plan, » Godes said.

They have to choose small planes

The small roads in Alaska cause many communities to rely on small planes for transportation.

Last month, a small passenger aircraft weighing half a ton of Norton Sound near Nome on the west coast of the province was hit by a sea ice.

Five years ago, in an air collision near Soldotna Airport, seven people, including a state deputy, were killed.