A father and his young son cheated death in the Shoreham air disaster only because wedding limousine driver Maurice Abrahams let their car go ahead of his.

A teenager who survived a small-plane crash, then made her way off a rugged Washington state mountainside, finally made it home to Bellingham, just as word came that searchers had located wreckage.

Breast milk, dirt and the thought of being reunited with her family helped a New Zealand woman survive being lost in rugged wilderness.