All occupants – three women, a child and the pilot – were unharmed and were found on the Turned aircraft in the Amazon Department of Beni, in the northeast of the country
Five people survived a small plane crash in And they remained 36 hours arrested in a swamp before being rescued on Friday (2), the authorities said. All occupants – three women, a child and the pilot – came out unharmed and were found on the Turned aircraft in the Amazon Department of Beni in the northeast of the country. “The five were on the plane in excellent condition,” said Wilson Ávila, director of the region of emergency operations in the region. The rescued are under medical evaluation in a local hospital.
The aircraft took off on Wednesday (1) from the town of Baures to the city of Trinidad, both in Beni, separated by a distance of 180 kilometers. Since then, passengers were considered missing. We were “surrounded by alligators coming to us, three meters away,” Andrés Velarde, 29 -year -old pilot, from the hospital bed, told the press. They also saw a sucuri closely. The pilot explained that the aircraft made a domestic flight when he began to lose altitude. He tried to find a plain to avoid a frontal collision with the mountains, but could only land in a swamp near a pond.
“We spent almost 36 hours unable to sleep,” said Velarde. They had to feed on local cassava flour that one of the passengers carried. “We couldn’t drink water and we couldn’t go elsewhere because of alligators,” he recalls. The causes of the accident are still unknown. In the department of Beni, due to the scarcity of roads and dense vegetation, the paths are usually in poor condition and the population often uses air taxis.
*With information from AFP
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