Text messaging saves man’s life
p2pnet news view Cool | Mobiles:- Text messaging can save your life.
Quite literally.
Ask Bob Pomponio.
Aged 54, he lives in Campbell River on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada, and he’s one of only two people who survived when a plane went down in a crash which killed five others.
And he owes his life to the fact he was able to text his approximate location to rescuers.
“The five victims – four passengers and the pilot – were aboard a Grumman Goose G21A amphibious plane that disappeared 10 minutes after takeoff on a routine flight from Port Hardy to a logging camp at Chamiss Bay, near Kyuquot Inlet,” says the Canwest News Service.
“The charred wreckage was found hours later in dense brush on a hillside north of Port Alice.”
Despite his injuries, “Pomponio climbed a hill and used his cellphone to text-message his boss,” says the story, adding:
“For hours, Pomponio could see the search-and-rescue aircraft but they could not see him.
“Rescue crews finally spotted the survivors and the wreckage around 4:30 p.m. It took another two hours to hoist the survivors into a Cormorant hovering helicopter.”
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.Stumble It!
Canwest News Service – Text-messaging survivor ‘a hero’, August 5, 2008
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