The Tunnel Creek Crash
The Tunnel Creek Crash  
Podcast: Marooned: Tales of the Catastrophically Lost
Published On: Wed Aug 20 2025
Description: On September 20, 2004, a Cessna 206 aircraft crashed while flying to a rural Schafer Meadows airstrip in Montana. Of the five people on board, only two would survive. Burned, injured, and presumed dead, forest service workers Jodee Hogg and Matt Ramige, were left to fight for survival, and descend the treacherous terrain in search of help.  Sources: ‘Unacceptable’ to quit: woman tells of plane crash’, AP JG-TC: Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, Sat, Sep 25, 2004 Victoria Advocate, Sun, Sep 26, 2004 Ventura County Star, Fri, Oct 22, 2004 Albany Democrat-Herald, Sun, Sep 26, 2004 The Times, Sun, Sep 26, 2004 The Signal, Sun, Sep 26, 2004 The Daily Sentinel, Sun, Sep 26, 2004 Star-Herald, Thu, Sep 15, 2005 The Spokesman-Review, Thu, Sep 15, 2005 The Daily Inter Lake, Fri, Sep 24, 2004 The Independent-Record, Fri, Sep 24, 2004 The Billings Gazette, Thu, Sep 15, 2005 Burned, battered, but alive — crash survivor recalls ordeal Plane Crash Survivor Recalls Ordeal Plane crash victims back from the dead Plane crash survivor feels he has a new perspective on life Woman tells of plane crash and survival ordeal The Tragedy in Tunnel Creek Inexperience blamed for plane crash James Long