A miracle cellphone signal.
The perfect app.
More than 50 people slogging through the snowy wilderness in rugged Owyhee County on Memorial Day weekend.
Great training, cooperation and good luck combined to save three people whose plane crashed late May 26 into the mountains near the Idaho-Oregon border.
12:08 a.m. Send a search party, please
Dispatcher: Owyhee County 911, what is your emergency?
Caller: Hi, Im in an airplane, and I crashed and Im in the mountains.
Dispatcher: Where are you at, hon?
Caller: 29 miles east, west of Mountain Home, Idaho. I need you to send a search party, please ...
The 911 call was made by pilot Brian Browns daughter, Heather, about three hours after the crash. Her mothers cellphone had been tossed about, and it wasnt until it rang amid the wreckage that the Browns realized it worked on the remote mountain.
Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith
