A pilot and two girls survived for about 12 hours clinging to the wing of their crashed plane in an icy Alaska lake. After the crash, a good Samaritan, Terry Godes, saw a call for help on Facebook and joined a search with other pilots. Upon spotting the wreckage, he was astonished to find the passengers alive and moving. His alert to authorities led to a swift rescue by the Alaska Army National Guard, and the survivors were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
It kind of broke my heart to see that, but as I got closer down and lower, I could see that there's three people on top of the wing.
I wasn't sure if we would find them, especially because there was a cloud layer over quite a bit of the mountains, so they could have very easily been in those clouds.
Finding the family alive within an hour of starting the search was very good news.
Many miracles were at play, from the plane not sinking to the alertness of the pilots.
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