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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002045114_planecrash24m.html
[font=times new roman, times, serif]Families amazed pair survived plane crash in Montana wilderness[/font] [font=times new roman, times, serif]By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter[/font]
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[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Wreckage of a plane that crashed Monday on a mountainside south of Glacier National Park in Montana led authorities to believe all five passengers had died. Two days later, two of the passengers emerged from the woods.[/font]
A day after hearing that Matthew Ramige had died in a plane crash, his family was struggling to write his obituary.
Then came word that the Wyoming man was alive, and the family stopped writing and began celebrating.
Ramige, 29, had walked out of a rugged thicket of woods near Highway 2 in Montana near Glacier National Park on Wednesday, two days after the single-engine plane carrying five people crashed into a mountain.
With him was 23-year-old Jodee Hogg, the only other survivor. Both were burned and suffering from back injuries. The two U.S. Forest Service employees walked about 10 miles before another Forest Service employee driving to his office picked them up and called for help.
"I had thought the worst and was told the worst," said Wendy Becker, Ramige's mother. "It's a miracle."
Ramige's family continued rejoicing at Harborview Medical Center, where Ramige was taken to be treated for severe burns. Less than a day after his arrival at the Seattle hospital, Ramige was "cracking jokes with the nurses and asking for milkshakes, ginger ale and all of his favorite things," Becker said.
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[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Jodee Hogg, 23, suffered burns and a back sprain.[/font]
Hogg, of Billings, sustained "some burns" and a back sprain, according to her brother, Ryan, and was recovering at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
Killed in the accident were Davita Bryant, 32, of Whitefish, Mont.; Ken Good, 58, of Kalispell; and Jim Long, 60, also of Kalispell.
Plane took off Monday
The Cessna 206 took off from Glacier Park International Airport Monday afternoon. It was heading to Schafer Meadows Guard Station, a remote landing strip in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in the Flathead National Forest, said Mike Oliver, a Forest Service spokesman.
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[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Matthew Ramige, 29, has burns and a back fracture.[/font]
Ramige, Hogg and Bryant, all forest-inventory specialists, were supposed to monitor the development of vegetation. Good, a radio-communications specialist, was sent to work on the Forest Service's two-way radio system. Long was a pilot contracted to fly for the Forest Service, Oliver said.
About 3 p.m., soon after taking off, the plane crashed into the side of Mount Liebig, said Flathead County Undersheriff Chuck Curry. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
When Curry and other sheriff's officials arrived at Mount Liebig on Monday, they knew bad weather was on its way and they had only about two hours to survey the site. Curry said they found what appeared to be "cremated" victims inside the plane. Good's body was found outside the plane.
"It did not appear to be a survivable crash," Curry said. "We were all shocked that somebody had survived."
Becker said authorities told her Tuesday that her son had died.
Temperatures in 20s
After the crash, Ramige and Hogg remained with Good until he died. Then they hiked to a nearby area and waited a day and a half for help. Temperatures dropped to 20 degrees, and the two huddled together to survive.
When it was apparent that rescue crews weren't on the way, they started walking, Dr. David Heimbach said yesterday at a press conference at Harborview.
The two survivors hiked through an extremely rugged area not marked by trails, Oliver said.
Wednesday, Forest Service employees were having their first meeting with some of the relatives of the five people believed to have died in the crash when they received news about the survivors, Oliver said.
"We didn't have any names, and everybody wanted to rush to the hospital," he said. "My first reaction was of absolute shock and hoping it wasn't a hoax."
The survivors were taken to Kalispell, but Ramige was moved to Harborview because of burns over 20 percent of his body and a back fracture. When he arrived in Seattle, he "had a touch of kidney failure," said Heimbach.
"He's an incredibly lucky young man. Tough as nails," Heimbach said. "His hands are pretty deeply burned."
Becker said she won't press her son for details about the crash because she doesn't want him to relive the mental trauma he went through.
She said Ramige has been an outdoorsman since he was a child. He attended the University of Montana and graduated with a forestry degree before joining the Forest Service.
When Heimbach said, "I can promise he will be back in the Forest Service in the spring," Becker grimaced.
"The future is Monday, that's Matt's 30th birthday," she said. "We take it one day at a time, and he's going to be 100 percent."
Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or [email protected]
Material from The Associated Press was included in this report.
[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company[/font]
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002045114_planecrash24m.html
[font=times new roman, times, serif]Families amazed pair survived plane crash in Montana wilderness[/font] [font=times new roman, times, serif]By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter[/font]
<A href="http://javascript<b></b>:EnlargePhoto('2002045115','');" target=_blank>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2004/09/23/2002044739.jpg[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] THE DAILY INTERLAKE[/font]
[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Wreckage of a plane that crashed Monday on a mountainside south of Glacier National Park in Montana led authorities to believe all five passengers had died. Two days later, two of the passengers emerged from the woods.[/font]
A day after hearing that Matthew Ramige had died in a plane crash, his family was struggling to write his obituary.
Then came word that the Wyoming man was alive, and the family stopped writing and began celebrating.
Ramige, 29, had walked out of a rugged thicket of woods near Highway 2 in Montana near Glacier National Park on Wednesday, two days after the single-engine plane carrying five people crashed into a mountain.
With him was 23-year-old Jodee Hogg, the only other survivor. Both were burned and suffering from back injuries. The two U.S. Forest Service employees walked about 10 miles before another Forest Service employee driving to his office picked them up and called for help.
"I had thought the worst and was told the worst," said Wendy Becker, Ramige's mother. "It's a miracle."
Ramige's family continued rejoicing at Harborview Medical Center, where Ramige was taken to be treated for severe burns. Less than a day after his arrival at the Seattle hospital, Ramige was "cracking jokes with the nurses and asking for milkshakes, ginger ale and all of his favorite things," Becker said.
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[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Jodee Hogg, 23, suffered burns and a back sprain.[/font]
Hogg, of Billings, sustained "some burns" and a back sprain, according to her brother, Ryan, and was recovering at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
Killed in the accident were Davita Bryant, 32, of Whitefish, Mont.; Ken Good, 58, of Kalispell; and Jim Long, 60, also of Kalispell.
Plane took off Monday
The Cessna 206 took off from Glacier Park International Airport Monday afternoon. It was heading to Schafer Meadows Guard Station, a remote landing strip in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in the Flathead National Forest, said Mike Oliver, a Forest Service spokesman.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2004/09/23/2002044781.jpg
[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Matthew Ramige, 29, has burns and a back fracture.[/font]
Ramige, Hogg and Bryant, all forest-inventory specialists, were supposed to monitor the development of vegetation. Good, a radio-communications specialist, was sent to work on the Forest Service's two-way radio system. Long was a pilot contracted to fly for the Forest Service, Oliver said.
About 3 p.m., soon after taking off, the plane crashed into the side of Mount Liebig, said Flathead County Undersheriff Chuck Curry. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
When Curry and other sheriff's officials arrived at Mount Liebig on Monday, they knew bad weather was on its way and they had only about two hours to survey the site. Curry said they found what appeared to be "cremated" victims inside the plane. Good's body was found outside the plane.
"It did not appear to be a survivable crash," Curry said. "We were all shocked that somebody had survived."
Becker said authorities told her Tuesday that her son had died.
Temperatures in 20s
After the crash, Ramige and Hogg remained with Good until he died. Then they hiked to a nearby area and waited a day and a half for help. Temperatures dropped to 20 degrees, and the two huddled together to survive.
When it was apparent that rescue crews weren't on the way, they started walking, Dr. David Heimbach said yesterday at a press conference at Harborview.
The two survivors hiked through an extremely rugged area not marked by trails, Oliver said.
Wednesday, Forest Service employees were having their first meeting with some of the relatives of the five people believed to have died in the crash when they received news about the survivors, Oliver said.
"We didn't have any names, and everybody wanted to rush to the hospital," he said. "My first reaction was of absolute shock and hoping it wasn't a hoax."
The survivors were taken to Kalispell, but Ramige was moved to Harborview because of burns over 20 percent of his body and a back fracture. When he arrived in Seattle, he "had a touch of kidney failure," said Heimbach.
"He's an incredibly lucky young man. Tough as nails," Heimbach said. "His hands are pretty deeply burned."
Becker said she won't press her son for details about the crash because she doesn't want him to relive the mental trauma he went through.
She said Ramige has been an outdoorsman since he was a child. He attended the University of Montana and graduated with a forestry degree before joining the Forest Service.
When Heimbach said, "I can promise he will be back in the Forest Service in the spring," Becker grimaced.
"The future is Monday, that's Matt's 30th birthday," she said. "We take it one day at a time, and he's going to be 100 percent."
Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or [email protected]
Material from The Associated Press was included in this report.
[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company[/font]
