Accidents Happen

The only survivor among eight people on a plane that crashed on a remote British Columbia island told rescuers he was able to climb out just before the wreckage exploded in flames. The man told rescuers it took him several hours to make his way down a creek bed to the beach.An official of Pacific Coastal Airlines said there was no record of a distress call from the pilot before the plane crashed.

According to Aviatrix this had happened before,

Yesterday morning I almost skipped over this article in my news aggregator, thinking that either Google’s spider or a Montana radio station had dredged up some old news. I blogged about the accident, because I’d been on one of the company’s airplanes at the time it happened.

Read more about it in his post not again.