Three family members survived a plane crash in a storm near Mountain Home, Idaho, on Saturday after the pilot made an emergency landing on a snowy mountainside. California firefighter Brian Brown was flying a Cessna 172 with his wife and daughter to visit family in Idaho聽when they hit an unexpected storm around聽9 p.m., causing聽the plane’s wings to ice over. When the engine stalled, Brown made the decision to intentionally “belly-flop” the aircraft onto聽a mountainside. The impact . The family found cell-phone service several hours after the crash and were able to call 911. Rescue crews trudged through six-foot snow drifts to reach the family, who were evacuated early Sunday morning.
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