A man and two children were found alive on Monday after their little plane crashed on a frozen lake in Alaska.
The three people were found near the wreckage of the super cruiser of Piper Pa-12 in the Kenai peninsula in Alaska after being reported the previous night, According to NBC News.
The three – the pilot and two children – were taken to the hospital after the discovery of the wreckage of the plane near the east side of Lake Tustumena, Alaska State Troopers confirmed to the information source of Alaska.
The point of sale has reported that the three – who are immediate family members – were found after about 12 hours on the lake of the Kenai peninsula.
A family friend, Scott Holmes, had published a call for help on Facebook With comments from the father of the missing pilot, John B. Morris, informing others to be on the lookout for the missing plane.
“Be careful all the pilots or planes are flying today. Aircraft missing, please if you fly in the Kenai peninsula. 3 / 24/25. My son has long been expected from a Sunday afternoon flight. The soldiers contacted Verizon. His mobile phone has pinrated in the region of Lac Tusumena,” read the post.
“My two granddaughters are also on board. There are friends ready to look for daylight. But this is my plea for any help to locate my family. ”
After the three people were found, Holmes wrote in an update of his post.
“They were found and walking, so more planes unless you have the ability to rescue. The plane went through the ice. ”
Once rescued, Holmes again updated the message, writing: “** Just, they are in the air that warms up!”
Soldiers previously said they had received a report on Sunday evening that a super Cruiser Piper PA-12 was late. He listed suspicious locations like Lake Tustumena and Kenai mountains, east of Homer. The 60,000 acres lake was described by the Alaska Fish and Game Ministry as “notorious for its sudden dangerous winds”.
Alaska’s source of information also republished that a local pilot, Dale Eicher, called the soldiers to get help when he learned on the radio that the plane had been spotted on the frozen lake.
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“I called the soldiers immediately because I was still in cellular service and I knew that it was a very good luck that the guy who had found him was not in cellular service,” said Eicher at the point of sale. “I was really shocked. I did not expect that we would find them. I did not expect that we would find them alive for sure … It doesn’t always go well. ”
A National Guard of Alaska Army Blackhawk Medevac went to the place where the wreckage was reported and found the three people on the wing of the super cruiser of PiP-12 ABC News.
The National Transportation Safety Board told the point of sale that it was not yet clear what had caused the accident and that it would interview the pilot and work to recover the plane for a more in -depth investigation.
The rescue comes only a month after another small plane was missing in the west of Alaska en route to the community of Hub de Nome.
This plane was Found crashed on February 7 on sea iceAnd the 10 people aboard the Bering Air flight were killed, the authorities said.
Mike Salerne, spokesperson for the American coast guard, said the rescuers were looking for the last known location of the helicopter plane when they spotted the wreck. They lowered two rescue swimmers to investigate.
The Alaska Regional Office of the American Coast Guard said on x That three bodies were found inside the plane, but the seven remaining victims were “inaccessible due to the state of the plane”.
“According to the reports we received, the accident was not survivable,” said Nome’s voluntary fire service A Facebook publication. “Our thoughts are going to families right now.”
The Bering Air caravan, a monomotor turboprop, was heading for Unalakleet in Nome in the afternoon of February 6 with nine adult passengers and pilot, according to the Department of Public Security of Alaska.
Global Affairs Canada said in a statement to Global News that he was aware of the missing plane, but “on the basis of current information, no Canadian would be on the flight.”
The fire service of Nome Volunteer reported that the plane had disappeared in a Facebook publication On February 7, asking the public not to train individual research parts for the missing plane due to bad weather and security problems.
– With Sean Boynton files from Global News and the Associated Press
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