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Marten Hartwell (1925 – April 2, 2013) was a German-Canadian bush pilot in the Canadian Arctic. On November 8, 1972, the plane that Hartwell was flying on a medical evacuation with 3 other passengers crashed. One passenger, a nurse named Judy Hill, was killed on impact. A pregnant Inuk woman who was being evacuated also died shortly after the crash. Hartwell himself was left with two broken ankles and could not walk. One passenger, a boy, David Pisurayak Kootook, survived the initial crash along with Hartwell but died after 23 days. Kootook spent his last few weeks gathering food and keeping a fire for himself and the injured pilot and is credited with saving Hartwell's life. The pilot was rescued after 31 days. Since the pilot was injured and unable to obtain local food, and emergency rations had run out, the pilot was forced to consume flesh from one of the dead passengers. At the time of his death he lived at Black River, Kings, Nova Scotia.