The man and two daughters survive 12 hours on the wing of planes in the Alaska lake before rescue | Alaska

A pilot and his two young daughters survived the wing of an airplane for about 12 hours later crash and was partially immersed in ice Below Lago, then he was saved after being identified by a good Samaritan.

Terry Godes said he saw a Facebook post on Sunday evening asking people to help looking for the missing plane, who did not have a lighthouse of the locator. On Monday morning about a dozen pilots including God headed towards the rough terrain. Gues headed towards Lake Tustumena near the tip of a glacier and saw what he thought was the wreck.

“In a sense, my heart broke to see it, but when I approached and lower, I was able to see that there are three people at the top of the wing,” he told the Associated Press Tuesday.

After saying a prayer, he continued to approach and saw a miracle.

“They were alive, reactive and move,” said Godes, adding that they greeted him.

The Super Cruiser for Piper Pa-12 missing, piloted by a man with two members of the immediate minor family on board, was on a tourist tourist tour at Lake Skilak on the Kenai peninsula. It was not immediately clear how old were young.

In a post on social media on Monday, John Morris implored people to help looking for his son and grandchildren, saying they were late returning from an afternoon flight on Sunday.

“There are friends ready to look for the light of day. But this is my request for any help to locate my family,” he wrote.

The three were saved on the eastern edge of Lake Tustumena on Monday from Below The Army National Guard after God warned other research drivers who had found them. Another pilot, Dale Eicher, listened to God’s radio and reported it to the soldiers because he was closer to Lake Skilak and imagined having a better cell reception. He was also able to provide the coordinates of the plane to the authorities.

“I was not sure if we would find them, especially because there was a level of clouds on a lot of the mountains, so they could have been very easily in those clouds that we could not reach,” Eicher said. But finding the living family within one hour from the start of the research “was excellent news”.

The three were brought to the hospital with wounds that were not considered dangerous for life, said the soldiers of the Alaska state.

Guins said that many miracles were at stake, from the plane that did not sink, to the survivors who could remain at the top of the wing, surviving them at night temperatures that immerse themselves below 30f (-1c).

“They spent a long, cold, dark and bathed night on top of a wing of an airplane they were not planning,” said Godes.

Alaska has few roads, leaving many communities to rely on small planes to move.

Last month 10 people died when a small commuter plane that was overweight by means of a tonne crashed on marine ice in the Norton sound, near the western coast of the state.

And five years ago, a collision in mid -air near Soldotna airport caused seven lives including that of a state legislator.

For the rescue of this week, the National Guard sent a helicopter from its base to Anchorage.

The initial plan to use a pranco to snatch the accidents that have survived the wing proved too dangerous, since the smallest girl was guilty and blowing by the wind created by the helicopter, said the lieutenant with the Brendon Holbrook, commander of the 207th Air Force Regiment. So instead the plane hovered to the side and pulled them on board.

The staff reported that the girls were surprisingly dry but the man had been in the water at some point, Holbrook said: “We don’t know how far, but it was hypothermic”.

Holbrook said he was told that they had basic clothing that one would wear small planes without excellent heating systems, but nothing sufficient to stay warm outside winter temperatures with cold winds blowing on the lake.

“It was literally the best scenario and possible result,” said Holbrook. “In the end, the crew of that plane was lucky, because from what my boys told me, that plane was on the ice with a retirement tail, and if that tail had not refined, it would be sunk.”

The Tustumena lake of 60,000 acres (24,200 hectares), the largest fresh water body of the Kenai peninsula, is located at about 80 miles (130 km) south-west of anchorage, with nearby mountains and a glacier.

It was described by the Department of Fish and Game of Alaska as “known for its sudden and dangerous winds”, with conditions that can cause chaos for both boats and planes.

“The ground helps to turn the winds and occasionally become a little squirrel,” said Michael Kutz, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Anchorage.

Guins agreed on the fact that the area is always windy and the water can be mounted in waves.

“So just as it is placed right there at the heel of that, or at the tip of that glacier where you have mountains on both sides, you know, a few kilometers to the west, you cook the entrance that runs back and forth with enormous temperatures and tide oscillations every day,” he said. “It’s just a recipe for chaos and turbulence.”

There was still no indication for which the plane crashed.

Mark Ward, an investigator of the Alaska division of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that the pilot has not yet reported the accident, nor the agency was able to contact him. On Wednesday the efforts had to be made again to talk to him.