I remember this vividly. The rescue was never established in my mind. In my mind before I read about this I had been there for months. I had survived only because the front part of the plane broke off and then, vaguely, was separated from my position. My position was safely in a part of the mountain, among other details in my mind I do not describe here, where the front part had separated and I could see the other section and I knew the people there were dead.
I cut down some trees, as I had thought about before again not described here now, and consistent with my real life of when I was 14 years old and often traveled by myself in the woods and swamps around the Little River in Southwest Arkansas. A place where I felt for the first time a tremendous sense of personal freedom.
Many years and decades later, I reflect now, as I grew to understand the geography of that area, and then expanding my horizons of this country, I began to understand how limited that terrain was in terms of human occupation.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Crews-recover-bodies-from-2-Washington-state-6387835.php
seattle pi - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Teen says she tried to save step-grandparents in plane crash
By MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press
Updated 6:11 pm, Thursday, July 16, 2015
SEATTLE (AP) — The teenager who survived a small plane crash in Washington's Cascade Mountains says she burned herself trying to pull her step-grandparents from the burning wreckage.
Autumn Veatch told NBC News (http://kng5.tv/1HxXIOa ) there was zero visibility before the Saturday accident, and then "it was all trees and then it was fire."
Authorities have said the plane entered a cloud bank before the crash.
Veatch said after the crash her step-grandparents, Leland and Sharon Bowman, were trapped. She said she couldn't get to Sharon Bowman but burned her hand trying to free Leland.
Before she fled she says she told the Bowmans that "I loved them and that it would be OK."
The 16-year-old Veatch survived the impact and was able to hike to safety.
Two bodies were recovered from the crash site, but authorities said Thursday that the fiery crash has made official identification difficult. Veatch has confirmed it was the Bowmans who were killed.
Leland Bowman was flying Veatch from Montana to Bellingham, Washington. After being hospitalized Veatch returned home to Bellingham late Tuesday.
It took her about two days to find help after the weekend crash that left her bruised and singed.
She had to make her way down a steep slope and follow a creek to a river. She spent a night on a sand bar and sipped small amounts of water.
She told NBC she fell down a cliff but kept going.
"And I just got this surge of willpower and was like there's no way I can die without hugging somebody again," she said.
She followed the river to a trail, and the trail to a highway where two men driving by stopped and picked her up Monday afternoon, bringing her to a general store in tiny Mazama, near the east entrance of North Cascades National Park.
Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers has said she and her relatives were flying a Beechcraft A-35 from Kalispell, Montana, to Lynden, Washington, when it struck the trees, plummeted to the ground and caught fire.
Officials will use dental records to confirm the identities of the bodies recovered, which could take about a week, Skagit County Deputy Coroner Matthew Sias said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
The cause of death was "blunt trauma," he said, adding "the injuries we found were consistent with them perishing very quickly."
Terry Williams, spokesman for National Transportation Safety Board, said the agency is investigating the accident on Thursday but had not reached the site yet because "the wreckage was located very recently."
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=humans-2015&episode=s01e03
Springfield! Springfield!
Humans
Episode 3
You're not going to hurt someone else, are you? Only if they deserve it.
We're a family.
You're my sister.
Human words.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_for_Strings
Adagio for Strings
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Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber, arguably his best known, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 8:19 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 16 July 2015
