{"id":79210,"date":"2015-01-04T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79210"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:18:10","slug":"us-girl-7-hailed-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/us-girl-7-hailed-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"US girl, 7, hailed after plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
A seven-year-old girl who survived a plane crash in the US state of Kentucky and walked barefoot to find help has been praised for her courage.<\/p>\n
Larry Wilkins, 71, told the BBC that he answered the door to the “brave girl” on Friday and that she told him her parents were dead.<\/p>\n
The plane was later found along with the bodies of the girl’s parents, her sister and a cousin.<\/p>\n
The girl has been named as Sailor Gutzler of Nashville, Illinois.<\/p>\n
Kentucky State Police said those killed were Marty Gutzler, 49, and Kimberly Gutzler, 45, their 9-year-old daughter, Piper Gutzler, and Piper’s 14-year-old cousin, Sierra Walder.<\/p>\n
‘A mess’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Wilkins said Sailor had walked almost a mile (1.6km) through a dark, dense wood in temperatures of about 40F (4C) to reach his house in Lyon County on Friday evening.<\/p>\n “I don’t walk in that wood during the day time,” he said. “It’s a mess.”<\/p>\n He added that she had been crying and bleeding when she arrived and had obviously “been through hell”.<\/p>\n