Bok om flyulykker med happy ending

Dietmar Eckell: Miracles of aviation history

By Fiona Macdonald

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Øverste bilde:

Fairchild C-82A Packet, Alaska

January 1965, Alaska. A Fairchild C-82 is flying above the Arctic Circle when it encounters trouble. “The plane’s electric system failed and they crash-landed in the night in the tundra forest, cutting down many trees. They survived at -45 degrees Celsius by making a big fire from the wood they had cut. It is very remote up there: they were really lucky that the fire was spotted by another plane three days later and they were rescued.” German photographer Dietmar Eckell is describing one of the stories he discovered while researching his Happy End project, which records plane crashes that had no fatalities. He has even been contacted by those who survived: raising the money to print a book of the photos last year, he was contacted by the pilot of this Fairchild C-82. “He sent me an email to thank me for writing down his story and documenting his plane almost 50 years after the crash.”