PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29222, 4 June 1960, Page 13

PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR

Boy Lives 14 Days In Wilderness WINNIPEG (Manitoba), June 2. A njne-year-pld boy was found alive “today in the wreckage of a light plane that crashed and burned 14 days ago, the Royal Canadian Air Force reported tonight. The boy, Walter Sedor, was unable to talk. He was taken by helicopter to hospital at Flin Flon. about 11 miles from the crash scene, in north-western Manitoba.

The R.C.A.F. said he apparently was the only survivor of the crash. The boy and his father, Steve Sedor, aged 39, with Ken Harrison, aged 32, had left Flin Flon on a fishing trip on May 18. The R.C.A.F. said one man’s body was found in the plane. He was not immediately identified The fate of the other was not known.

The wreckage of the singleengine olane was spotted from the air today after a widespread search for the last two weeks. The crash scene is inaccessible except by helicopter. The Air Force said a coroner and another man were lowered to the site in a sling, and that the youngster was removed in the same way The boy apparently had been thrown through the roof of the plane on to a heavily-wooded hill during the crash. Canadian Press said.

It was not known how the boy obtained food. He appeared not to have' been badly bitten by mosquitoes because of heavy clothing he was wearing.

He indicated his father and Mr Harrison had been killed in the crash. The R.C.A.F helicopter was returning tonight to bring out their bodies.