Aviation history

The BBC has an article by Fiona Macdonald about airplanes that crashed with no fatalities:

Fairchild C-82A Packet, AlaskaIn January of 1965, in Alaska, a Fairchild C-82 (photo) is flying above the Arctic Circle when it encounters trouble. “The plane’s electric system failed and they crash-landed in the night in the tundra forest, cutting down many trees. They survived at -45 degrees Celsius by making a big fire from the wood they had cut. It is very remote up there: they were really lucky that the fire was spotted by another plane, three days later, and they were rescued.” That's German photographer Dietmar Eckell, describing one of the stories he discovered while researching his Happy End project, which records plane crashes that had no fatalities. He has even been contacted by those who survived: raising the money to print a book of the photos last year, he was contacted by the pilot of this Fairchild C-82. “He sent me an email to thank me for writing down his story and documenting his plane almost fifty years after the crash.”

Rico says there's nine more there; if you're an aviation junkie like Rico, check it out.