Anchorage, Alaska - Two Dillingham men are safe tonight, without a scratch on them, after a dramatic plane crash near Dillingham.

The men were rescued this morning by the Alaska Air National Guard.

It all started about 6 p.m. yesterday after 69-year-old pilot and lay minister Jim Bingman and his passenger, Gavin Thompson, left Togiak to return home to Dillingham. The men were in a single engine Aero Commander 100 on a church mission to finish constructing a new Seventh-day Adventist Church in Togiak.

About halfway back, Bingman suddenly found himself in whiteout conditions in a mountain pass.

"I looked down and there was a bush right in front of my windshield. And so I said, ‘That's not supposed to be there!' and I pulled back on the yoke and leveled out just in time to touch down," said Bingman.

"Ended up flying into the ground. The plane flipped over on its back, proceeding down the mountain for about 1,200 additional feet," said Clint Johnson of the National Transportation Safety Administration.

"At high speed, it was the best toboggan ride you can ask for, like a Disney Land one. You're upside and spinning tail first, back first down the hill, and then face first down the hill, brush and rocks and junk coming up through windshield at you," said Bingman.

Bingman says neither he nor Thompson was injured, not even minor injuries. He says they just got a bit cold waiting overnight for rescuers.

They were rescued this morning by the Alaska Air National Guard.

Bingman sounds pretty casual about the crash. He says he can be so easy-going about it because he and Thompson are men of faith and often pray for protection.

He says he honestly wasn't frightened during the ordeal and knew the Lord was with him.

It happened at a time when both men were on a church mission. He says they wanted to make sure the baptismal was finished in time for a March baptism.