Four Children Missing In Jungle After Colombia Plane Crash Found Alive After 40 Days

Four Children Missing In Jungle After Colombia Plane Crash Found Alive After 40 Days

Four children who survived a plane crash have been found alive after being lost in the Colombian jungle for 40 days.

The country’s president, Gustavo Petro, announced that the four siblings who disappeared after a plane they were on went down in the Amazon rainforest had survived the horrific crash and were receiving immediate medical attention.

“A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” Mr Petro tweeted on Friday.

 

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The siblings – 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, nine-year-old Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, four-year-old Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, and 11-month-old Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy – were travelling in a Cessna 206 plane when it crashed on 1 May near the Guaviare province.

Their mother Magdalena Mucutuy, the plane’s pilot, died in the accident but the children were nowhere to be found, according to the Colombian Air Force.’

The plane wasn’t found until two weeks later on May 16 in the rainforest. The remains of the three adults on the plane were located, but the children weren’t there.

The Colombian armed forces flew 150 soldiers with dogs to the area to search for the siblings, and in the end they were able to find the children who had survived off of food from the jungle.