Four survive ordeal

Press, 27 December 1979, Page 4

Four survive ordeal

_ NZPA-Reuter Aspen, Colorado Battling winds of up to 113 km/h. rescuers yesterday reached the wreckage of a twin-engined aircraft on a mountainside and reported that four of the five persons aboard had survived a twoia day ordeal. A National Park Service a spokesman said medics who e reached the site, in a snowd field 3600 m high in Rocky lt Colorado, reported that one Mountain National Park. f woman aboard the plane had

i.'been killed in the crash, o The names and home towns of the victim and three of! o the survivors were not im-| v mediately available, but a! a girl, aged nine, who survived a the crash was identified as] d Claire Krieger. s A ranger said the girl and] ,- two women survivors had] been flown to hospitals bv] e helicopter. He said the rescue i o of the fourth survivor, the i -: pilot, had been delayed be-1 v cause the man was trapped! e in the wreckage and appar- :. ently had suffered back ini'juries.