Pilot among 3 adults killed when Cessna 206 aircraft crashed May 1
Thomson Reuters · Posted: Jun 09, 2023 7:46 PM CDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

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Soldiers attend to children that were rescued in the jungles of Caqueta, Colombia, on Friday. (Colombian Military Forces/Reuters)
Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the south of the country more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said on Friday.

The children were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia's Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.

The plane — a Cessna 206 — was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure in the early hours of May 1.

Three adults, including the pilot, died as a result of the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane. The four children, aged 13, nine and four, as well as an 11-month-old baby, survived the impact.

Photos shared by Colombia's military showed a group of soldiers with the four children in the middle of the jungle.

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A soldier stands next to the wreckage of a plane in the jungle of Caqueta, Colombia, on May 19. (Colombian Military Forces/Reuters)

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Good news!

All this good news all of a sudden, feels good.

To tell you the truth, I didn't believe they would be found alive.

This is a GREAT day.

I don't want to sound like I'm stereotyping but relying on my studies of cultures my guess would be that...

They are indigenous children and some are at least ten. Many indigenous cultures teach their children how to survive at young ages, I think that had much to do with it. They were all family members, that may have helped them maintain a mindset to move forward to survive.

That's my best guess.

That could be what saved them..... with no one pitching fits or striking out in a different direction.

I'll bet it was their love for the tiniest one which kept it alive, they probably made every effort to protect the little one.

I'll bet you're so right, being indigenous, they wouldn't freak out in the jungle, being familiar with the environment already. Just thinking about it as I typed my comment on your comment brought tears into my eyes, and a running nose.

It's great you shared your thoughts. It touched at least one reader deeply and unexpectedly.

Thank you.

Referring to the children but applies more broadly overall, to immediate change and tragedy through the lens of their understanding. If they are knowledgeable of their surroundings... the dangers and useful plants and features of the landscape, they would be able to weather the loss of the family adults who perished. Their belief in life and death could also be one that we might not understand but was practical in nature enough to get them through it. Plus the season may have helped.

A lot of possibilities. It's good that they were found.

A friend of mine survived a crash like that only up in Alaska. Nobody died in that one. He had head injuries that cause him problems but he's holding up so far. Same age as me.

I'll bet there are a lot of people who would have died of shock before ever reaching the ground!

What a trauma that would be. Nightmares, one would expect.

It's wonderful he survived without being injured further, isn't it? Good for him.

Not that many people walk away from a plane crash.

the way they are posing them like that

I hope it is true but this has been one strange story....

and the boy looks so weak, as they all do, nearly at death's door! They wrapped them in blankets, as they were probably colder after having lost so much weight during the month by themselves in the jungle, probably getting rained on regularly.

I totally imagine they were found absolutely just in time to save them. It's hard to imagine how 4 children, with the youngest being 11 months old could have endured with nothing but each other, that long.

The photo does look odd, but the situation was stark for them all. Maybe the soldiers were trying to hold the children so the camera could give proof they were alive at the moment they found them, even though it may be they weren't quite sure they could get them to help before they lost them!

On edit: I looked again, noticing the soldiers' faces for the first time as I only looked at the kids earlier. The men all look deeply concerned and emotionally involved with those children's rescue. It looks as if they were all trying their very best to do everything and anything as well as they possibly could to get the children to safety. I'm glad I took the time to examine their faces. They are all looking very gentle, and hushed during that moment.

Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro said Friday.

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"Today we have had a magical day," Petro told the media in the capital Bogota after announcing their rescue.

"They are weak. Let's let the doctors make their assessment," he added.

The president earlier posted a photo on Twitter showing several adults, some dressed in military fatigues, tending to the children as they sat on tarps in the jungle. One rescuer held a bottle to the mouth of the smallest child, whom he held in his arms.

"A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle were found alive," he wrote on Twitter.

¡Una alegría para todo el país! Aparecieron con vida los 4 niños que estaban perdidos hace 40 días en la selva colombiana. pic.twitter.com/cvADdLbCpm

— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) June 9, 2023

Video shared by the Defense Ministry late Friday showed the children being pulled up into a helicopter as it hovered over the tall trees in almost complete darkness.

Originally from the Huitoto Indigenous group, the children -- aged 13, nine, four and one -- had been wandering alone in the jungle since May 1, when the Cessna 206 in which they were traveling crashed.

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EPA/MILITARY FORCES OF COLOMBIA via: PAP/EPA.

Four children who had been missing in Colombia’s dense jungle area for more than 40 days were airlifted on Friday after their dramatic rescue.

“Today, in an unprecedented operation in our country’s history, with the help of God, we achieved something we thought was impossible: the locating and rescue of the four minors who were lost in the jungle for more than 40 days. Because of the inter-institutional effort and the willingness and interaction of indigenous communities with Colombian soldiers, we were able to form combined teams of search units,” said General Helder Fernan Giraldo Bonilla.

The children, who belong to an indigenous community, were found alive in the country’s south more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed.

Videos shared by the Colombian Air Force show the military pulling the kids into a helicopter that was flying 60 meters (196.85 feet) in the air.

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Cooperation between indigenous peoples and the armed forces was instrumental in finding the children alive, Commander of the Colombian Armed Forces General Helder Fernan Giraldo Bonilla said.

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