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7-year-old survives to walk to house, report plane crash
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A 7-year-old girl who survived a plane crash in Kentucky that killed her parents and two other family members has been released from the hospital, an official said Saturday.
The plane had reported engine trouble and lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly before the 5:55 p.m. CST crash, authorities said. About a half hour later, a man called 911 and told dispatchers that a 7-year-old girl had walked to his home in Kuttawa, Kentucky and said she had been involved in a plane crash.
The girl had walked nearly 1 mile, through thick piles of brush, in temperatures that were less than 40 degrees before reaching the home of 71-year-old Larry Wilkins.
“I come to the door and there’s a little girl, 7 years old, bloody nose, bloody arms, bloody legs, one sock, no shoes, crying,” Wilkins told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday. “She told me that her mom and dad were dead, and she had been in a plane crash and the plane was upside down.”
“This girl came out of the wreckage herself and found the closest residence and reported the plane crash,” Patterson said. “It’s a miracle in a sense that she survived it, but it’s tragic that four others didn’t.”
The FAA said late Friday that the plane had taken off from Tallahassee Regional Airport, Florida, and was bound for Mount Vernon, Illinois. Patterson said the girl who survived indicted the plane had left from Key West, Florida.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board also were expected to get to the scene later Saturday, Patterson said.
The pastor of a church near the crash site said the area was known for rough terrain and that the conditions Friday were wet due to persistent rain.
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