By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-25 15:03:50 | Updated at 2025-03-26 02:48:13
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A pilot and two children have been miraculously saved in the Alaskan wilderness after the plane they were travelling on crashed on Sunday evening.
The three were found alive on Monday roughly 12 hours after their aircraft crashed on the frozen Kenai Peninsula Lake.
Alaska State Troopers said the two children were elementary and middle school ages, however authorities have not yet released the names of those on board.
Officials said the family was saved by Good Samaritans who joined the search for their Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser aircraft on the frozen tundra, which was on the foothills of the Kenai Mountains.
Dale Eicher, another member of the search and rescue team, told KTUU that he had just began his own search over the frozen lake when he heard the good news over the radio.
'I called the troopers immediately because I was still in cell service and I knew it was a really good chance that the guy that had found him was not in cell service,' Eicher said.
'I was really shocked. I didn’t expect that we would find them. I didn’t expect that we would find them alive for sure... it doesn’t always turn out this well.'
A pilot and two children have been miraculously saved in the Alaskan wilderness after the plane they were travelling on crashed on Sunday evening
The three were found alive on Monday roughly 12 hours after their aircraft crashed on the frozen Kenai Peninsula Lake
