Marten Hartwell

[3] One passenger was killed on impact, another died shortly after, and the pilot had two broken ankles and could not walk.

[3] One passenger, a boy, David Pisurayak Kootook, survived the initial crash along with Hartwell but died after 23 days.

[7] Leopold Herrmann, born in 1925 in Germany, was given military flight training in 1944, In 1958 he obtained a West German pilot's licence and emigrated to Canada in 1967.

[3] Hartwell was not flying a normal scheduled route, but happened to be in Cambridge Bay after dropping off prospectors on the Barrens.

His aircraft, a Gateway Aviation Beechcraft 18,[3] was chartered by the nurse in Cambridge Bay to fly on to Yellowknife where his passengers could receive medical care at the local hospital.

[9] The initial search, which lasted three weeks, failed to find any trace of the Hartwell plane and was called off.

The plane was found after a Hercules aircraft of the Canadian Armed Forces on a return trip from the Inuvik Supplementary Radio Station (CFS Inuvik) picked up an emergency signal from the aircraft's emergency radio beacon on December 7, 1972.

[2]: 26  According to a speech given in 2011 by General Ramsey Muir Withers, the beacon had not been turned on until 30 days after the crash.

Hartwell gave a lengthy interview to the Observer after his rescue, but did not cooperate in any attempt to portray the story in film or on television.

The inquest was told that members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who inspected Hartwell's camp had found small plastic bags containing human remains.

[2]: 100–101 A warned statement, obtained by an RCMP officer from Hartwell, was read into the inquest record.

In 1998 David Pisuriak Kootook, the Inuk boy from Taloyoak who saved the downed pilot, was honoured by the Northern Transportation Company by having a ship named after him.

In 1977 a BBC reporter, Jim McDougall, published a book titled Angel of the Snow about Judy Hill.

[15] According to McDougall a Judy Hill Memorial Fund was organised and contributions was made from around the world.