A volunteer pilot found the three on Monday morning after they had been missing all night, the authorities said. They were taken to a hospital.

Three people were found alive by a search and rescue team after their plane went missing. An adult and two children were rescued after a good Samaritan spotted them on the wing of the plane in a lake 50 miles away from Anchorage,

Good Samaritans in Alaska are being credited with helping save a pilot and two children who survived a plane crash on an icy lake Sunday night.