When 71-year-old Steve Couchman crash-landed his plane into the frozen waters of Beards Creek, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, shortly after taking off from Lee Airport, he was brought onto a kayak by a good Samaritan father-son duo.
Anne Arundel County Police Officer Elizabeth Myers in an attempt to rescue Couchman, using screwdrivers to propel the kayak forward on the ice.
“Oars don’t work on ice, but screwdrivers do!” the police department wrote on a post showing the bodycam footage.
Watch below to see Myers respond at the scene of the icy crash.
