Seven-year-old stuns 71-year-old when she knocks on his door seeking help from plane crash in Kentucky
Girl, 7, climbs out of wreckage and walks about a kilometre through dense woods to get help after her parents, sister and cousin were killed
Larry Wilkins was watching the evening news when he heard a knock on his door. Standing on his porch was a thin, black-haired girl, whimpering and trembling.
It was seven-year-old Sailor Gutzler, who said through her tears that she had just been in an airplane crash.
Stunned, Wilkins, 71, took the child in, put her on his couch and called 911, the emergency number in the United States. His two dachshunds, Pete and Bonnie, comforted her until police and an ambulance arrived 10 minutes later, he said on Saturday.
Through her jitters and crying, Wilkins said he pieced together that the girl had climbed out from the wreckage and walked almost a kilometre through dense forest littered with fallen hickory trees, wearing only a short-sleeve shirt, shorts and no shoes in near-freezing temperatures when she saw a light in the distance. That beacon was Wilkins' home.
"I come to the door, and there's a little girl, 7 years old, bloody nose, bloody arms, bloody legs, one sock, no shoes, crying," Wilkins, 71, said. "She told me that her mom and dad were dead, and she had been in a plane crash, and the plane was upside down."
