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After the turbo prop plane Lyman Fern was a passenger on crashed, he was surrounded by darkness, still conscious.

He was one of the 25 people who survived the crash landing involving a West Wind Aviation plane. The plane took off a short time before from Fond Du Lac and crashed about one mile west of the airport. No deaths have been reported.

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The trip began as usual for Fern, who had travelled the route between Fond du Lac and Stony Rapids before. He and his cousin boarded the flight and the plane was soon on its way down the runway.

“It wasn’t even long and it just went like that,” he said, motioning with his hand back and forth, side to side. “And the fourth time, we just went down and the engines cut off too and it was just dark on the plane.”

He just closed his eyes, he said, not knowing what to do. Fern wasn’t knocked out by the crash landing. When the plane crashed, he said he was already out of his seat and outside of the plane.