They might write books, perhaps make a film, about Sailor Gutzler.
One day they might. Not now. Not for a long time yet.
She’s just 7 years old and is going through an ordeal no one should ever endure at any age, at any time of their life.
Sailor survived a plane crash in rural Kentucky. The crash killed her parents, her older sister and a cousin. Her entire immediately family was gone. Just like that.
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The remarkable aspect of the story deals with (a) how Sailor survived the deadly crash of a small, twin-engine plane and (b) how she found safe haven in cold, dark, damp woods.
Sailor reportedly was sitting in the rear of theĀ Piper piloted by her dad, 48-year-old Marty Gutzler. He was an experienced pilot who apparently earned his pilot’s license before being licensed to drive a motor vehicle. It’s said often that the rear of these aircraft are safer than anyplace nearer to the front.
She crawled out of the aircraft that had landed upside-down. Sailor apparently knew her family had perished. Off she went, clothed in Florida summer vacation clothing, from where she and her family were returning to their home in Illinois.
It was cold that night. She trudged some distance through thickets, through a deep ditch. She spotted a light and walked toward it.
The light turned out to be the home of Larry Wilkins. She knocked on the man’s door. He opened it and she told him her parents had died in the crash. She was bleeding, in pain, confused and terribly frightened. Wilkins called 9-1-1.
This story is as heartbreaking as it gets.
How this little girl will cope with the memory of what happened on that dark Kentucky night well could become grist for literature and film.
Not for a long time. She must heal. Thoroughly heal.
“She is one remarkable young lady,”Ā National Transportation Safety BoardĀ investigator Heidi Moats said at a Sunday news conference.
Boy, howdy!