MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Rescuers in Michigan are calling it a miracle. A woman and her three children spent Thursday night in 34- degree weather after surviving a deadly plane crash on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. CNN's Alexa Lee (ph) has the story.</s>ALEXA LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U.S. Coast Guard video shows the remains of a plane crash. The pilot and a crewman were killed, but members of an Illinois family, including a mother and her three children, survived. Murse Galt (ph) and her kids, ages 13, 9, and 5, left Chicago's Midway Airport Thursday night. The twin engine plane they chartered flew past their destination, Michigan's Beaver Island Airport, and then went down on a small island in Lake Michigan.</s>SHERIFF GEORGE LASATER, CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, MICHIGAN: The father of the family on board was at the airport awaiting their arrival. The plane made a pass over the airport at about 500 feet, and that was the last the plane was heard from.</s>LEE: After the crash, Murse Galt and the kids waited for 16 hours while the Coast Guard and local law enforcement blanketed the area for signs of life. The conditions, freezing rain, sleet, and fog. At about 10:30 the next morning, a pilot spotted the family signaling for help. Rescuers followed.</s>PAUL WELKE, PILOT: We made one circle around, and the second time, this woman -- I assume it was the mother -- got on top of the fuselage and waved at us, and we -- it just made our day knowing that somebody survived it.</s>LEE: Rescuers say the family suffered from exposure, bruises, and cuts. Coast Guard officials think the plane overshot the runway while trying to land. They also believe the weather was a factor in the crash. Alexa Lee, CNN.
Woman and Three Children Survive Plane Crash in Michigan