Plane Crash Survivor, 7, Lit Stick to Find Safety

The 7-year-old girl who walked away from a small plane crash in western Kentucky that killed four members of her family, including her parents, used survival skills taught from her father to find her way to safety, relatives told NBC News. Sailor Gutzler was able to climb out of the aircraft, light a stick from the plane's burning wing and walk three-quarters of a mile through the woods and a creek to a home for help. When police arrived at the home she was "very shaken but alive," and said she had tried to wake up her family before leaving the site of the crash, police said. Federal investigators began combing through the crash site Saturday to determine what led to the accident.

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