“There is something good that can come of this…She can do something magnificent with her life.”

Airing Tuesday, January 6, 2015

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New York, NY — January 6, 2015 — Inside Edition’s Steven Fabian speaks with sisters Diana and Daniela Montoya, who have a message of comfort to little Sailor Gutzler, the sole survivor of the tragic plane crash that killed her entire family, because they know what the little girl is going through.

When Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel and crashed not far from JFK Airport in New York in 1990, the Montoya sisters, along with their parents, somehow made it out alive. Diana was four-years-old and Daniela was a baby. 

Steven Fabian: “What advice would you have for Sailor?”

Diana Montoya: “To realize there is something good that can come of this; that she can do something magnificent with her life.”

Daniela Montoya: “I don’t let it hold me back because life is too short for that.”

Along with the rest of the nation, the sisters are in awe of Sailor’s story of survival, how she found herself deep in the woods of Kentucky after the crash, and made the trek in the pitch black to find help.

Diana Montoya: “She’s definitely am amazing fighter for a little girl. Hopefully she’ll grow up to be this strong fighter of a woman.”

Diana is now a pediatrician and Daniela works for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Both sisters attended Columbia University.

Diana Montoya: “Since the crash, all we’ve done is celebrate life and the desire to do something with our lives because we were given a second chance.”

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