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and I'm Julie Henningson, and we are medical professionals with a passion for wilderness survival. podcast. I'm Casey McIntosh. And I'm Julie Henningson. And we are medical professionals

with a passion for wilderness survival. Join us as we explore real life survival stories and the

critical moments that determine their outcomes. Buckle up. Adventure awaits. Let's dive into this week's story.

It's the afternoon of May 5th, 1979.

Somewhere in the mountains of central Idaho,

a small white plane is falling.

Not the dramatic spinning nosedive you picture from the movies,

something worse, actually.

A slow, grinding, out-of-control glide through a canyon.

The pilot, a man with over 6,000 hours in the air and 20 years of experience,

is fighting every control he has left.

He's trying to thread a four-seat Cessna through a Slot Canyon in the Salmon River Mountains

with no engine power and a damaged aircraft. And in the back of that plane are two people who have

almost nothing to do with any of this. A 17-year-old girl named Donna Johnson and her 25-year-old

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