Five survival Bolivia aircraft crash in the swamp filled with alligator

Wilson Ávila, director of the emergency business center in the Beni region in the Beni region, saved all on board three women, a child and the 29-year-old pilot swour in “excellent condition” in the capsized aircraft.

The one -engine aircraft flew from the city of the Baures to the northern city of Trinidad, about 180 kilometers away when it came across trouble.

Andrés Velarde, the 29-year-old pilot, told the local media from his hospital bed from the height of the height and he had to forced to make an emergency landing in a swamp near a lagoon.

The five were “surrounded by alligators who came from us within three meters,” said Velarde, adding that he believed that a and escaping kerosene from the plane would have deterred the predators. He also said they had seen an anaconda in the cloudy waters.

For food, they survived on a local manio meal that one of the passengers had brought with them.

“We couldn't drink water and we couldn't go there any other way because of the alligators,” said Velarde.

The group was saved after being discovered by local fishermen and taken to a hospital.

Air taxis are often used in the Beni region due to a lack of asphalt roads and the poor condition of existing.

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