A FATHER and his two girls survived a night on the wing of their aircraft after it crashed into a frozen lake.
The 38-year-old and his daughters were spotted by a volunteer pilot responding to their family’s social media SOS.
Terry Godes said he saw a Facebook post calling for people to help search for the missing plane.
On Monday morning about a dozen pilots including Godes headed out to search the area.
Godes headed toward the lake, which sits at the foot of a glacier, and spotted what he thought was wreckage.
Godes said: “It kind of broke my heart to see that [the wreckage].
“But as I got closer down and lower, I could see that there was three people on top of the wing.”
“They were alive and responsive and moving around.”
The family had endured 12 hours in sub-zero temperatures on the wing of the partly submerged Piper aircraft, in icy Tustumena Lake in Alaska.
The trio were lifted to safety by a helicopter and taken to hospital but their condition was not serious.
