landon carnie and his twin sister lorie were initially thought to have died with scores of other youngsters when the first flight of operation babylift was an evacuation of vietnamese orphans and children before the fall of saigon .
incredibly , with wreckage and bodies strewn over miles of countryside , the terrified 17-month-old twins were found huddled together in a rice paddy more than a day after the crash and later taken to their adoptive parents in the u.s. who had earlier been told they were dead .
now 41 , landon has visited the crash scene and is thought to be the first child survivor to return to the scene that