You know the expression, In An Instant your life can change? Well that is the premise for ABC’s new 2 hour specials. Tonight, tomorrow and next Saturday at 9p, the docuseries will tell the stories of people who survived situations that they shouldn’t have.
On tonight’s season premiere an Alaskan family of 4 is flying home in a small plane when a sudden weather system leaves their pilot blind during the white out. When their visibility is regained, they see a huge mountain in front of them. The pilot does all he can, but the plane crashes killing the pilot and his personal passenger. The family of four survives, but they are all badly injured. Not only are they injured, the kids were thrown from the plane and their dad with 2 broken legs and a broken back has to try to find them. To make matters worse, the mother is pregnant with their third child and she’s convinced she lost the baby.
How will they be found in this remote area with weather conditions that are not favorable for a search and rescue? How will they be able to get through the waiting period to be rescued as all of them are in severe pain with no food and not being appropriately dressed for the plunging temperatures? You will just have to tune in to find out as they tell story with reenactments.
Coming up tomorrow we hear from several of the survivors of the 2007 Minneapolis Bridge Collapse and next week a father and daughter tell their take of surviving a grizzly bear attack. If they are as good as the first one, then you will be captivated from the beginning until the end.
