On Friday, January 2, 2015, the plane carrying the Gutzler family from Key West, Florida, to their home in Mount Vernon, Illinois, crashed in the deep woods of Kentucky. Seven-year-old Sailor was the lone survivor. The crash killed her parents, sister and cousin. First responders called Sailor’s survival a miracle.
First, she survived the crash itself. The plane came to rest upside down and was “partly on fire,” according to Sailor. Second, she trekked through rugged terrain to get help. With a broken wrist and wearing a T-shirt, shorts, one sock and no shoes in 38-degree temperatures, she “walked nearly a mile in the dark through ‘fallen trees, creeks, ditches, and blackberry briar.’ ” Her hike included embankments, a hill and a creek bed. She found help at the home of 71-year-old Larry Wilkins, one of only three homes occupied in that area this time of year, which may have been a third miracle.
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