everyone is okay, believe it or not. abc's cecilia vega has the story. >> owyhee county emergency. 911. what is your emergency? >> hi. i'm in an airplane and i crashed. >> reporter: they were trapped. a father, mother and daughter inside their mangled cessna on a remote, snowy idaho mountain. >> i need you to send a search party, please. >> reporter: it was 9:00 p.m. on saturday when the browns went down. father brian in the cockpit telling his wife and daughter, i don't think we're going to make it. somehow, they did spending the entire night, 15 hours, in below freezing white-out conditions. the windshield smashed. their own blood on the door. >> i can get up and walk around, but my head is split open pretty good. >> reporter: a fire captain from northern california, usually it's brian doing the rescuing. this time, his family needed help. daughter heather had pelvic injuries. the mother injured her head and