Finding Carla Quotes

“It was Carla and Phyllis’s diary that broke the political gridlock and spurred the government to take action. Since 1970, human lives saved by ELT radios worldwide number in the thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands. With the development of the newer 406 MHz beacons, thousands more will be found. The ELT story is directly traceable to the suffering of Carla, Phyllis, and Alvin F. Oien, Sr. in The Viking.”
― Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

“So Alvin F. Oien, Sr. died hard and alone. He’d pushed himself to the end the way he pushed himself throughout his life. Though he’d not made it more than a half-mile from his beloved Viking and family, he died the way a man should die: trying.”
― Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

“Why didn’t they make a toboggan out of airplane parts? Why didn’t they lay out some sort of signal? It’s easy for us, warm and dry and in no pain, to look at a map and wonder why three cold, hurt, starving people, lost on a mountainside in the snow didn’t do certain things.”
― Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

“Whoever finds this wreck—please mail these letters for us. We waited so long for you—where were you? Our daily log is here for you to see in the folded Airman’s Guide.”
― Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

“The starving person in a catabolic condition is often too weak to sense thirst and they become easily dehydrated. Movement becomes painful due to the muscle weakness and cracked, dry skin.”
― Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue