“It’s a cold dark place out there at night,” he said. The plane was mostly submerged in the lake with only the wing and the top of the rudder exposed above the ice and water, Godes noted.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A pilot and two children survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake, then were rescued after being ...

The plane was mostly submerged in the lake with the wing and the top of the rudder as the only parts exposed above the ice and water, he said. There is no indication why the plan had crashed.

Godes said many miracles were at play, from the plane not sinking, to the survivors being able to stay atop the wing, to them surviving nighttime temperatures dipping into the 20s (subzero Celsius).