Teen Plane Crash Survivor Found After Wandering Woods for Days
A 16-year-old girl who was one of three people on board a missing aircraft was found in the mountains of Washington today, KING-TV reports.
“A motorist brought in a young woman who they found near Easy Pass,” a witness told KOMO-TV. “She said she had been in a plane crash on Saturday and had been wandering in the woods since then.”
Police confirmed the girl is 16-year-old Autumn Veatch, who went missing this weekend along with grandparents Leland and Sharon Bowman. All three were flying from Montana to Washington on a small plane piloted by the girl’s grandfather when the aircraft dropped off the radar over north-central Washington.
The girl has reportedly been taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and is doing fine.
“We’re not going into the status of the grandparents. She was the only one who walked out,” said Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers on Monday. “She just said they came out of the clouds, and it crashed.”
Yesterday, Autumn’s father David told KOMO-TV he was “really sad, tired, hopeful.”
“I can’t imagine anybody having to go through something like this,” said David Veatch.
UPDATE 9:00 p.m.: Officials have confirmed the found teen’s identity, saying she was “the only one who walked out” from the crash.
