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Plane crash survivors use text messaging to summon help

An AP newswire article, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

Unable to use their wireless phones to call for help in a conventional way, the pilot and passenger of a small plane that crashed in the rugged Ozark National Forest used text-messaging to contact their parents, who summoned help.

Adam Young, 22, and passenger Brittney Cozart, 19, had flown from Little Rock to a northern Arkansas resort for lunch Sunday and were returning when Young was forced to crash land the single-engine Cessna, Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery said.

Cozart text-messaged her mother, who first contacted authorities, Montgomery said. About an hour later, Young was able to message his father with the downed plane's location.

posted by Fergie @ 10/19/2005 12:46:00 PM