Brett Winterbottom News Today

CHICKALOON, ALASKA – To hear Brett Winterbottom explain it, he was just in the right place, at the right time.

"They were floating on the plane just, like a boat. They were running just as fast as the water was moving," one of the rescuers said.

A North Texas nurse was off the grid in Alaska when a plane crashed nearly in front of her group. She and others went to work in the cold to rescue a couple and their baby while waiting for help that was more than an hour away. "It all just like fell together into this crazy miraculous moment where everything lined up perfectly."

A plane crashed into Alaska's Matanuska River over the weekend.

A North Texas school’s trip to Alaska included a life-saving rescue that they believe had nothing to do with luck.

"They were floating on the plane just, like a boat. They were running just as fast as the water was moving," one of the rescuers said.

A plane crashed into Alaska's Matanuska River over the weekend.

Tammy Saunders, a nurse at Faith Academy in Grapevine, was in the right place at the right time when a plane crashed into a river in Alaska.

Tammy Saunders, a nurse at Faith Academy in Grapevine, was in the right place at the right time when a plane crashed into a river in Alaska.