Montana Miracle

The funeral plans for Matt were in the works. The Park Service

had announced that Matt was one of five people who had been

killed in a plane crash on a mountainside in Montana. The funeral

never happened. Suddenly, Matt's bereaved parents heard the

stunning news: although he had been badly injured, their son,

along with one other Forest Service worker, had just been

rescued alive, miles from the crash site. Rescue workers at

the scene of the crash had concluded that the charred wreckage

and the scattered human remains indicated that the crash had

been "insurvivable," they said. But amazingly, Matt and his

fellow worker hiked for 29 hours, often in subfreezing

temperatures, until they reached a highway where a motorist

picked them up. One news magazine called it, "A Miracle

in the Snows of Montana" MORE: http://xrl.us/es3w