This image provided Saturday Nov. 30, 2013, courtesy of Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of a plane that crashed on Friday near St Marys, Alaska. Source: AP
AFTER phoning for help in resuscitating her baby, a 25-year-old woman on a plane that crashed in remote southwest Alaska led searchers hampered by cold and fog to the crash site.
The single-engine aircraft carrying 10 people went down on Friday night near the village of Saint Marys, killing four people and injured six. After her child died, Melanie Coffee walked more than a kilometre toward lights in the village to meet rescuers. "I believe she's the real hero in this," said Saint Marys Village Police Officer Fred Lamont Jr. Ms Coffee, who suffered chest trauma, tried whistling to alert searchers. She considered starting a fire to get their attention but eventually decided to start walking toward village lights.
Meanwhile, a passenger train has derailed just metres from the Hudson River in New York City with at least four dead and over 60 injured. The Metro-North passenger train came off the tracks at 7.20am (11.20pm AEDT) on Sunday near the Spuyten Duyvil station in The Bronx. "I was asleep and I woke up when the car started rolling several times. Then I saw the gravel coming at me, and I heard people screaming. There was smoke everywhere and debris. People were thrown to the other side of the train,'' one survivor said.
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