True Story: Survival Skills Can Save You In A Plane Crash

 

The 7-year-old girl who walked away from a small plane crash in western Kentucky that killed four members of her family used survival skills passed down by her father to find her way to safety, relatives told NBC News.

Sailor Gutzler was the sole survivor after her family’s Piper twin-engine aircraft landed upside down in a wooded area in Lyon County on Friday, leaving her parents, sister and cousin dead. The plucky girl emerged from the plane, lit a stick from the burning wing and then — bloodied and with broken bones — walked through the cold darkness, her family said Saturday.

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Sailor’s father, Marty Gutzler, had been flying since he was 16, logging about 4,000 hours, and taught as a flight instructor, family said. He had made that same trip from Florida to Illinois “many, many times,” a family friend told NBC News.

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Sailor was treated at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, and released early Saturday morning, according to Kentucky State Police.

A statement from the Gutzler family asked for prayers — especially for Sailor. “We are devastated by this loss, but are confident that they rest in God’s loving arms,” said family spokesman Kent Plotner.

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