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Article: Panama rescuer: 'My heart told me to go on' searching for plane crash survivor
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- December 27, 2007
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It was Christmas Day, but Miguel Vurac was not opening presents with his family. Instead, the 32-year-old electrician was searching the cold, remote mountains of western Panama for three Americans and the pilot of their downed plane.
Vurac was part of a group of Panamanian volunteers who on Tuesday found 12-year-old Francesca Lewis, the crash's sole survivor. They also found the bodies of Francesca's friend Talia Klein, 13; Klein's father, Michael Klein, 37, a prominent Santa Barbara, Calif., businessman; and Panamanian pilot Edwin Lasso, 23.
The weather was so foggy and cold Tuesday afternoon that Vurac's brother, Manuel, called him to suggest the group turn back, saying ...
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