Scott Slater Survives Plane Crash with Only Minor Injuries
Plane Crash Survivor Scott Slater Shares His True Story
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June 4, 2010
Scott Slater was flying with two of his friends one evening in a small Piper plane when something went wrong. All Slater remembers is waking up upside down. He survived the plane crash and is eager to resume his life, reports KHSLtv.com
Slater woke up hanging upside down in a a flooded rice field not knowing what happened or what may have caused the plane to crash. All three boys survived, with Slater's injuries being minor compared to the other two.
"I blacked out, all I remember is flying and the next thing I now we're upside down in the rice tract in the water. I don't know what happened, I can't say because I don't know what happened," he told the news source.
The 16-year-old had part of his ear reattached and was treated for second-degree burns but was discharged from the hospital after two days. He returned to school one day after being released and is ready to get back to playing football and being a normal teenager.
The National Transportation Safety Board reports that there were 1,559 airplane accidents in U.S. civil aviation in 2008.
According to Popular Mechanics, it is possible to survive a plane crash if surrounded by a semiprotective cocoon of debris. Smaller people are also more likely to survive a fall.
Surviving a plane crash can be a traumatic experience which may cause psychological issues, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Survivors of an event like a plane crash are encouraged to seek guidance from a mental health professional to manage a treatment plan.
