Amazon jungle plane crash

Siblings who survived 40 days in Amazon jungle after plane crash say mother lived for days The children were traveling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to the town of San Jose del Guaviare when the plane went down. An Indigenous leader and a family welfare official embrace at the entrance of the military hospital where the four Indigenous children who survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive, are receiving medical attention, in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, June 10, 2023. Ivan Valencia/AP • Facebook • Twitter • Email • Email • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The four Indigenous children who The siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lie in bed, relatives said. Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four siblings — 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy — had described to him how their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: “Go away,” apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more details. Authorities have not said anything about this version. Manuel Ranoque, the father of two of the y...

Colombian Defense Minister Iván Velásquez Gómez told reporters at a news conference Saturday that the children were recovering at the Central Military Hospital of Bogotá and were in stable condition. Military officials, also speaking to the media, said the four children were receiving nutritional and psychological support. The plane was flying from the southern town of Araracuara when it disappeared May 1, according to authorities. Searchers later discovered the wreckage and the bodies of the pilot, the children’s mother and another adult — but the children, who are members of the Huitoto Indigenous group, were nowhere to be found. A report said the children had been sitting at the back of the plane, which was less damaged in the crash. “Four Western kids of the same age would have died” there, he said, but many children from Indigenous communities in the Amazon “mature very early” and at an early age learn basic skills for surviving in the forest, including how to find food and how to avoid predators. In some communities with which he has worked, children may begin climbing trees as early as 1 year old. For outsiders, “the hinterlands of the Amazon jungle sounds a lot more hostile than it actually is, particularly if you come from those places,” Peres continued. “In that part of the Amazon, there will be about 80 different species of snakes, but only five of those are venomous and they [Indigenous people] can distinguish poisonous from nonpoisonous snakes.”

Now, new details of their harrowing story have emerged. The kids, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lying on a bed, according to family members. Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four surviving children — 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy — told him their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: “go away,” apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more details. Fidencio Valencia, a child’s uncle, told media outlet Noticias Caracol the children were starting to talk and one of them said they hid in tree trunks to protect themselves in a jungle area filled with snakes, animals and mosquitoes. He said they were exhausted. “They at least are already eating, a little, but they are eating,” he said after visiting them at the military hospital in Bogota, Colombia. A day earlier, Defense Minister Iván Velásquez had said the children were being rehydrated and couldn’t eat food yet. The children were traveling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San Jose del Guaviare when the plane went down. The Cessna single-engine propeller plane was carry...

Colombia's first lady, Veronica Alcocer (left), and Sofia Petro (right), the daughter of President Gustavo Petro, visit one of the four children in hospital. Photograph: Prensa Presidencial/Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images Colombia's first lady, Veronica Alcocer (left), and Sofia Petro (right), the daughter of President Gustavo Petro, visit one of the four children in hospital. Photograph: Prensa Presidencial/Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images The four young Colombian siblings who managed to survive for 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have been reunited with their family as further details emerged of their astonishing feat of endurance. The children’s grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, who visited them in the Bogotá hospital where they are recuperating, said they were “shattered but in good hands and it’s great they’re alive”. Read more The children – aged 13, nine, four and 11 months – are member of the Huitoto people. They were travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San José del Guaviare when the plane crashed in the early hours of 1 May. A military sniffer dog found them alive on Friday, after they had spent weeks in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound. Valencia said the siblings had survived by eating fariña, or cassava flour, and by using their knowledge of the rainforest’s fruits. “When the plane crashed, they took fariña [from the wreckage], and with that they survived,” the children...

Strapped aboard plane wreckage hurtling uncontrollably towards Earth, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke had a fleeting thought as she glimpsed the ground 3,000 metres below her. The trees in the dense Peruvian rainforest looked like heads of broccoli, she thought, while falling towards them at 45 metres per second. A wild thunderstorm had destroyed the plane she was travelling in and the row of seats Juliane was still harnessed to twirled through the air as it fell. She lost consciousness, assuming that odd glimpse of lush Amazon trees would be her last. But then, Juliane woke up. The jungle canopy was now above her. It was Christmas Day 1971, and Juliane, dressed in a torn sleeveless mini-dress and one sandal, had somehow survived a 3km fall to Earth with relatively minor injuries. Walking away from such a fall bordered on miraculous, but the teen's fight for life was only just beginning. She had crash-landed in Peru, in a jungle riddled with venomous snakes, mosquitoes, and spiders. Returning to civilisation meant this hardy young woman, the daughter of two famous zoologists, would need to find her own way out. The 'jungle child' raised by scientists Born to German parents in 1954, Juliane was raised in the Peruvian jungle from which she now had to escape. Her father, Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, was a renowned zoologist and her mother, Maria Koepcke, was a scientist who studied tropical birds. Together, they set up a biological research station called Panguana so they could immerse ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Four Indigenous children who disappeared 40 days ago after surviving a small plane crash in the Amazon jungle were found alive Friday, Colombian authorities announced, ending an intense search that gripped the nation. The children were alone when searchers found them and are now receiving medical attention, The president said the youngsters are an “example of survival” and predicted their saga “will remain in history.” WATCH: No details were immediately released on how the youngsters managed to survive on their own for so many days. The crash happened in the early hours of May 1, when the Cessna single-engine propeller plane with six passengers and a pilot declared an emergency due to an engine failure. The small aircraft fell off radar a short time later and a frantic search for survivors began. Two weeks after the crash, on May 16, a search team found the plane in a thick patch of the rainforest and recovered the bodies of the three adults on board, but the small children were nowhere to be found. Sensing that they could be alive, Colombia’s army stepped up the hunt for the children and flew 150 soldiers with dogs into the area to track the group of four siblings, ages 13, 9, 4 and 11 months. Dozens of volunteers from Indigenous tribes also helped search. On Friday, the military tweeted pictures showing a group of soldiers and volunteers posing with the children, who were wrapped in thermal blankets. One of the soldiers held a bottle to the smalle...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Four Indigenous children who disappeared 40 days ago after surviving a small plane crash in the Amazon jungle were found alive Friday, Colombian authorities announced, ending an intense search that gripped the nation. The children were alone when searchers found them and are now receiving medical attention, The president said the youngsters are an “example of survival” and predicted their saga “will remain in history.” WATCH: No details were immediately released on how the youngsters managed to survive on their own for so many days. The crash happened in the early hours of May 1, when the Cessna single-engine propeller plane with six passengers and a pilot declared an emergency due to an engine failure. The small aircraft fell off radar a short time later and a frantic search for survivors began. Two weeks after the crash, on May 16, a search team found the plane in a thick patch of the rainforest and recovered the bodies of the three adults on board, but the small children were nowhere to be found. Sensing that they could be alive, Colombia’s army stepped up the hunt for the children and flew 150 soldiers with dogs into the area to track the group of four siblings, ages 13, 9, 4 and 11 months. Dozens of volunteers from Indigenous tribes also helped search. On Friday, the military tweeted pictures showing a group of soldiers and volunteers posing with the children, who were wrapped in thermal blankets. One of the soldiers held a bottle to the smalle...

Now, new details of their harrowing story have emerged. The kids, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lying on a bed, according to family members. Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four surviving children — 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy — told him their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: “go away,” apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more details. Fidencio Valencia, a child’s uncle, told media outlet Noticias Caracol the children were starting to talk and one of them said they hid in tree trunks to protect themselves in a jungle area filled with snakes, animals and mosquitoes. He said they were exhausted. “They at least are already eating, a little, but they are eating,” he said after visiting them at the military hospital in Bogota, Colombia. A day earlier, Defense Minister Iván Velásquez had said the children were being rehydrated and couldn’t eat food yet. The children were traveling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San Jose del Guaviare when the plane went down. The Cessna single-engine propeller plane was carry...

Siblings who survived 40 days in Amazon jungle after plane crash say mother lived for days The children were traveling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to the town of San Jose del Guaviare when the plane went down. An Indigenous leader and a family welfare official embrace at the entrance of the military hospital where the four Indigenous children who survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive, are receiving medical attention, in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, June 10, 2023. Ivan Valencia/AP • Facebook • Twitter • Email • Email • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The four Indigenous children who The siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lie in bed, relatives said. Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four siblings — 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy — had described to him how their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: “Go away,” apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more details. Authorities have not said anything about this version. Manuel Ranoque, the father of two of the y...

Colombia's first lady, Veronica Alcocer (left), and Sofia Petro (right), the daughter of President Gustavo Petro, visit one of the four children in hospital. Photograph: Prensa Presidencial/Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images Colombia's first lady, Veronica Alcocer (left), and Sofia Petro (right), the daughter of President Gustavo Petro, visit one of the four children in hospital. Photograph: Prensa Presidencial/Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images The four young Colombian siblings who managed to survive for 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have been reunited with their family as further details emerged of their astonishing feat of endurance. The children’s grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, who visited them in the Bogotá hospital where they are recuperating, said they were “shattered but in good hands and it’s great they’re alive”. Read more The children – aged 13, nine, four and 11 months – are member of the Huitoto people. They were travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San José del Guaviare when the plane crashed in the early hours of 1 May. A military sniffer dog found them alive on Friday, after they had spent weeks in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound. Valencia said the siblings had survived by eating fariña, or cassava flour, and by using their knowledge of the rainforest’s fruits. “When the plane crashed, they took fariña [from the wreckage], and with that they survived,” the children...