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Article: Rescuer Describes Finding Crash Survivor
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- December 27, 2007
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Miguel Vurac passed up his chance to open Christmas presents with his family, instead hunting through cold Panamanian mountains for three Americans and the pilot of a downed plane. Hours into the search, he was stunned by a faint cry: `Help me."
The 32-year-old electrician 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 that emergency crews had suspended the search. Vurac's brother, ...
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