E. Texas plane crash survivor: ‘I really thought I was going to die out there’
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - An East Texas woman is sharing her story of survival.
Pamela Lucky survived a plane crash Tuesday in Upshur County that killed her husband and stranded her for hours.
She invited our cameras into her hospital room to tell us about her husband and the reason she knew she had to survive.
"I held his hand until they found us. Five hours it took them to find us and I never left his side. I held his hand. I talked to him the whole time because that was my baby. My baby," Lucky said.
Lucky said she still struggles to remember all of the details of the plane crash. But some moments she said she'll never forget.
"Every time I close my eyes I see a picture of him. Because this man loved me with everything he had," she said.
Lucky said she and her husband Samuel spent the day in Sulphur Springs with family.
She said at least once a month they would take a trip in his Cessna 172 Skyhawk.
They were just a quarter mile away from the Gilmer Municipal Airport runway before the crash.
"We were making a loop around the airport and it happened so fast neither one of us had time to say anything. He didn't know what happened I didn't know what happened," Lucky said.
Lucky said she was able to get out her seatbelt, hopeful that she could call for help.
"Is it going to kill me because I'm falling real far? But I didn't care I wanted to call 911 so I could find the phone and get help for him," Lucky said.
Lucky said they would have been married for two years this Valentine's Day.
"I was his sweetheart. And he wanted everybody to know that I was his sweetheart that's why we got married on Feb. 14," Lucky said.
While she's grateful to be among friends and family, she said that "If I could change places with him I would, because he was just that kind of man."
She believes her love for him and their family gave her the strength she needed to survive the unthinkable.
"I really thought I was going to die out there, I really did. But I knew he didn't want me out there," Lucky said.
The cause of the plane crash has not been determined.
A preliminary report from the NTSB could be available as early as next week.
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