Montana Plane Crash Victims Survived Initial Impact, Died In Resulting Fire

KALISPELL (AP) -- Three people killed in the crash of a Forest Service contract plane near Glacier National Park survived the initial impact, but died in the resulting fire, Flathead County Sheriff Jim Dupont said.

The Cessna crashed near Essex on Sept. 20, killing three of the five on board. Two others walked several miles from the crash scene and flagged down help on U.S. 2.

Pilot Jim Long, 60, reportedly tried to push others out of the burning plane before he succumbed to the fire, Dupont said Tuesday. Passenger Davita Bryant, 32, of Whitefish, also died from the flames.

Ken Good, 58, of Whitefish, was pushed out of the plane, but succumbed hours later to burns, shock and a compound fracture to his leg.

Jodee Hogg, 23, of Billings and Matthew Ramige, 30, of Jackson, Wyo., walked out of the woods a day after authorities found the melted wreckage and pronounced the crash unsurvivable.

Ramige remains hospitalized in Seattle, where he is being treated for burns and a spinal fracture.

Hogg is scheduled to speak about the crash Wednesday afternoon in Billings. She was treated for her injuries at a Kalispell hospital.

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