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Little Girl Survives Deadly Plane Crash

Oct 31, 2007 | Staff | KWTX News

Rescuers who helped find a 3-year-old girl alive in the crumpled wreckage of an airplane say they knew she was OK when she cried for her teddy bear.

The girl, Kate Williams, survived the crash on Sunday because she was strapped into a child's car seat, according to search-and-rescue team officials.

Her pilot grandfather, 65-year-old Allen D. Williams, and his colleague Steven T. Sutton died in the accident.

The plane was found nose down and flipped over in the icy water at the edge of a riverbank in the rugged mountains of southeast British Columbia.

Officials said the girl was very scared and her big concern at the time was her little teddy bear.

She didn't want to leave the crash scene without it.

The girl suffered head injuries but was listed as stable, and was reunited with her parents, officials said.

Police said the Cessna 172 was on its way to Edmonton when it took off from Golden around Sunday afternoon into low clouds and snow.

A team using a hand-held beacon locator found the crash scene, and two military search and rescue technicians landed nearby in a helicopter.

As they checked the wreckage for survivors, they discovered the girl alive but surrounded by debris in the back of the plane.