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100 feet, 150 feet, maybe. >> reporter: as you heard the pilot, he initially doubted that anyone had survived, but he said a rescue helicopter was the next to the site and spotted someone waving from inside the downed plane, and that started the long arduous process of rescuing those four survivors and removing the bodies of the five victims. tony. >> patrick, maybe you can tell us a bit more about where the plane was trying to land. >> reporter: this is a fishing trip that this group was on, and the party was on their way to a lodge not far from here. as you said, tony, this was a float plane...

Investigation continues, tony as to what caused the deadly crash, and for investigators in dillingham, that means getting back out to the crash scene, about 20 miles from where we are but it's inincredible inaccessible area. the low cloud cover is not going to help. they stymied their efforts yesterday. one of the first people i spoke to yesterday was a local pilot named eric shade, one of the two pilots asked to start searching the area when the plane went missing on monday and he said they were able to find the missing plane after about 20 minutes of searching and it was a horrifying scene. ...