Blind Luck in the Yukon

Brad is an NCAA champion swimmer at an east coast college. Brad is also blind and an orphan. Over Thanksgiving break, ditching his girlfriend, Brad takes a chance, based on information from a private investigator he has hired, and heads, unannounced, to the North Slope of Alaska to try to connect with his biological father, an oil field foreman, before he heads to a new oil field, to get answers to many questions.
The aging but experienced bush pilot Brad hires to fly him from Anchorage to "the Slope" takes advantage of Brad's blindness and flies far off the normal route to deliver some contraband and make some quick cash before he retires from flying due to a bad heart. The plane crashes. Brad is the only survivor...