Anchorage, Alaska — A pilot and his two young daughters survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was ... Guard dispatched a helicopter from its base in Anchorage.

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska ... and the U.S. Coast Guard launched an HC-130J Super Hercules plane. Good Samaritans flew ahead of the HH-60M, found the crashed plane and relayed ...

Two young girls and a pilot miraculously survived a plane crash Sunday by huddling ... were rescued from the wreck by an Alaska Army National Guard helicopter, which lifted them to safety.