BEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Personal electronic devices helped lead rescuers to a father and daughter who survived a plane crash in Pennsylvania.
State police say the aircraft had taken off from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport on Sunday night when it went down in a wooded area in Bear Creek Township. Authorities asked the U.S. Air Force to help with the search and they pinged the 58-year-old dad’s cellphone and 13-year-old daughter’s iPad to locate them.
State troopers found them huddled together suffering from hypothermia. Emergency responders called it a miracle.
Authorities are investigating what caused their plane to crash.
They were taken to a hospital. Their conditions are not known.
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