Posted on 03/26/2009 5:41:31 PM PDT by Lorianne
ISTANBUL (AP) — Moaning in pain, a Turkish journalist wedged in the wreckage of a crashed helicopter on a snow-covered mountain called an emergency hot line and begged for rescue as the battery in his mobile telephone drained.
"My foot is badly broken. I think there are some dead," Ismail Gunes, a cameraman for Turkish news agency IHA, told the operator in a recorded conversation that was broadcast on television stations Thursday, transfixing the country.
At least 2,000 soldiers, villagers and other rescue workers searched Thursday for the wreckage of the helicopter, which was carrying Gunes and five other people when it went down in bad weather Wednesday afternoon. Fog and snowstorms hampered the search missions by air.
The passengers, including the leader of a small political party, had just left an election rally in Turkey's southern Kahramanmaras province.
"It's hurting. Hello? Haven't you located us yet?" Gunes said in his eight-minute call soon after the aircraft slammed into the ground. "I am starting to freeze, I am cold. There's a snow storm. I am inside the helicopter... There's no sound from anyone. No sound. Oh my, this is bad!"
Although the emergency official on the line urged him not to hang up, Gunes said his telephone battery was running out and he appeared disoriented, saying "I don't remember" when asked about his location. He moaned periodically, and indicated his foot was stuck in the debris.
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This is why GPS in cellphones should be a standard feature.
Wait, they still haven’t found them?
Maybe if cell phones were bigger than a saltine cracker they could have bigger batteries.
Read the article. Sounds like they would not have been able to rescue them in time with those conditions and temperatures.
They can triangulate between towers and find you.
"As god as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly"
Headline writers please note: "Turkish crash", "Turkey crash": Not the same.
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