Four missing children in the Columbia plane crash has been found alive after 40 days in the Amazon jungle.
The plane 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.
Two weeks after the crash, on May 16, a search team found the plane in a thick part of the jungle. They also found the bodies of the three adults on board, but the small children were nowhere to be found.
Sensing that they might still be alive, Colombia’s army intensified its search for the four siblings, ages 13, 9, 4, and 11 months, and flew 150 soldiers into the area with dogs to find them.
According to the President of Columbia, Gustavo Petro, the Children were found alive fending fit themselves in the thick Amazon jungle.
“They were alone, they themselves achieved an example of total survival which will remain in history.”
In a video released by the Columbia Ministry of Defense, the children were airlifted to Bogota, the nation’s capital, where ambulances took them to a hospital for additional medical care.
