Terry Godes, the pilot who found the plane wreckage, said it was a miracle the man and his daughters survived the crash and freezing temperatures on the wing of the plane on an icy lake overnight.

A pilot and his two young daughters survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake before being rescued.

Three people spent a frigid night on the wing of a partially-submerged plane before being rescued after their plane went down on Tustumena Lake in Alaska.