Posted on 07/14/2015 8:21:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 16-year-old girl survived a small-plane crash that killed her step-grandparents in the rugged mountains of north-central Washington state and then hiked through thick forest to safety in what a rescuer called a miracle.
Searchers still are looking for the wreckage, but Autumn Veatch says Leland and Sharon Bowman of Marion, Montana, died in Saturday's crash, according to Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers, who spoke with the girl.
"She said they were flying in the clouds, and in an instant, it opened up and there was the mountain, and they crashed into the trees," Rogers told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesda
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I use Garmin Pilot with my andriod tablet, connects via bluetooth to a wireless gps that sits on the dash. Also have a garmin 440 in the plane. Hard for me to understand someone going cross country without some type of avionics indicating location? But even with just a sectional map and a general idea of where you are all that is needed is a glance at the max alt of terrain indicated in every grid. I still can remember the 5 C’s, things necessary to do if lost. Climb is one of the C’s, communicate is another. The pilot of that plane almost certainly did neither.
I'd reckon she is no amateur - If she lives in Marion, MT, chances are she's a mountain gal, and can make her way in the woods alright... Not to diminish her success, but if she lives up there, chances are pretty good that she's been in the woods her whole life. Marion is just west of me here in Kalispell, and is definitely in the sticks.
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