He said he recovered several times, only for the plane to stall again. It didn’t take long for him to realize he was no longer looking for a place to land, but somewhere to crash. “We’re gonna die!” his son Josiah yelled. The snow-covered summit of Mount Equinox, at approximately 3,400 feet, came into view as they dropped out of the clouds.

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