Bodies have been recovered from both aircraft crash sites. A second aircraft from MN also crashed Saturday.

notice that she did not try and make a shelter or rub two sticks together to get a fire going but just went for it.
i would not want to stay by or near the wreckage but get away from a scene out of hell.

Yeah, that's an understandable reaction. The young lady went through a horrible, traumatic event -- her grandparents burned in that wreck. How many of us would be thinking clearly after that?

Standing back from it, though, I still think that going blind into PNW bush, which can be incredibly dense and disorienting in a lot of places, is a surefire recipe for increasing the casualty count. Note that I don't have any specific information on this particular area -- maybe it's not as dense or overgrown, which would change the equation.

Either 80% or 20%

Apparently, she credits watching Survivorman with her dad when she was a child. "Going downhill, finding water, following a creek, slept curled up in ball, found a trail then the highway." Word got back to Les about this and he skyped a call to her in the hospital and told her he looked up to her. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/16-year-plane-crash-survivor-thought-nightmare-32513971

Les Stroud if you didn't know is a Toronto hospital himself after a vehicle accident in Mongolia left him with broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

Some more info on her survival in this article in the Bellingham paper.

Even a little bit of knowledge helps...do this; not that

and here, a tiny survival/edc kit might have also helped.

Les is da' man! "What would Les Stroud do?" is an excellent survival question to ask yourself when you suspect you've gotten yourself into trouble.

Alternately, "is this something Bear Grylls would do?" is an excellent survival question to ask yourself if you need to rethink doing something that's too risky.
[No disrespect - Bear is a highly knowledgeable, credible and experienced outdoor expert, but, unlike Les, his shows are entirely for entertainment, not practical survival instruction]

A case where a small ' here take this for the duration of the trip ' kit or a 'here's where the gear is" 1 minute speech approach might have been helpful.