![]() "When you do a climb with someone, and you're depending on each other for life on a rope, you form a pretty strong bond," Young. Young said he was not close friends with Turner, but had got to know him while doing three climbs with him. Young called it the happiest moment of his life. More than four hours after the plane crashed, rescuers found them. Two other members of the hiking party, whose injuries were less severe, set up lean-tos to shelter Young and the badly burned woman, and tried to keep them dry and warm while they waited for rescuers to arrive. "He was reaching out, and I grabbed both his arms and pulled and got him out some," Young recalled.ĭespite his attempt to lever up part of the plane, he wasn't able to pull the pilot from the aircraft. Then he turned his attention to the pilot who was beside the woman he had just rescued.Ĭharles Turner, an avid hiker and mountaineer from Comox, B.C., died in the crash. "I thought maybe I can get part of this plane loose, and I pulled her out," Young said. He freed himself from the burning de Havilland Beaver wreckage by wriggling his feet out of his hiking boots.Īfter he pulled himself from the plane, Young said, he heard screams from a woman in the group who was trapped under the wreckage. … I had visions of burning to death," Young said. ![]() "I pulled and pulled and couldn't get my feet loose and the fire was getting stronger. 'I had visions of burning to death.'- Crash survivor John Young With his feet jammed between his seat and the front of the plane, Young stuck his hand out the window. Young doesn't recall all the details, but thinks he must have been thrown over the pilot in the crash. ![]() ![]() Turner, a Comox, B.C., resident, died, as did the plane's pilot, who has not been named. He extinguished those flames, and then noticed a hand reaching from behind him in an attempt to set off an alarm button on the dash of the plane.īut the hand soon stopped moving, and Young realized it must have belonged to fellow hiker Charles Turner. (Courtesy of John Young)Īfter the plane slammed into the trees, Young said, he saw flames and realized his hair was on fire. Crash survivor John Young said he thought he was going burn to death. ![]()
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