Survivors of Bolivia plane crash remember a 36-hour torture in Swamp: “The alligators and snakes watched us all night”

After her little plane fell into the Bolivian jungle at the beginning of this week, her ordeal really started.

After the plane had hit the ground, she turned into a lagoon that was affected with anacondas and alligators and plunged into a shaken 36 hours to stick to the airplane's wrecks, including a 6 -year -old boy – including a 6 -year -old boy – into a shocking boy, including a 6 -year -old boy. Before he is saved on Friday in the northeast of this Andean nation.

The doctor, who treated the five survivors, announced the Associated Press on Saturday that everyone was aware and stable. Only the 37-year-old aunt of the boy, who were still taken to the hospital for an infected cut. The rest was released and recovered from dehydration, minor chemical burns, infected cuts, bruises and insect bites.

The Vice Ministry of Bolivia's civil protection dramatic video and pictures of the group that were saved on Friday.

“We couldn't believe that they hadn't attacked and went dead,” said Dr. Luis Sorcococo, director of the hospital, where the survivors were sent in Bolivia's tropical province in Bolivia, by phone after sent the pilot and two of the women home with a strong antibiotics.

The 27-year-old Pablo Andrés Velarde appeared on Friday to tell the story that many Bolivians sparked-a rare piece of uplifting news for a nation that is urgently needed after years of spiritual economic and political crisis.

“The mosquitoes would not let us sleep,” Velarde told reporters from his hospital bed in the provincial capital Trinidad, where Dr. Soruco said he was in surprisingly good health and spirits. “The alligators and snakes watched us all night, but they didn't come close.”

Velarde shocked that the Caimans, a kind of the type of alligatorf family based in Central and South America, were not interpreted, and speculated that it was the stench of the jet bracelet, which was buried from the rubble, which had kept the predatory reptiles in chess, even though there is no scientific evidence that remains an effective alligator.

Velarde said that the five of them survived by eating ground maniok flour that had brought one of the women as a snack. They had nothing to drink – the lagoon water was filled with gasoline.

The small plane had left the Bolivian village of Baurs on Wednesday to the larger city of Trinidad, where Patricia Coria Guary had a medical examination for her 6-year-old nephew in the children's hospital, said Dr. Soruco. Two other women, neighbors from Baures aged 32 and 54, joined them.

Such flights are a common means of transport in this remote Amazon region, which is carved with rivers. Heavy rains wash unpaved roads away at this time of year.

But only 27 minutes – almost half – into the flight, the only engine of the aircraft. Velarde said that he had reported to a colleague her upcoming crash via a portable radio.

In interviews with local media, he remembered that he was looking for the huge emerald green roof under him and aimed at a clearing near a lagoon.

“There was no ranch or road along the route,” he said. “It was just swamp.”

Instead of spinning over the bank as planned, the plane hit the floor and turned on the head – injured everyone on board and let Coria Guary with a particularly deep cut on the forehead – before she sprayed into the water.

“The landing was very rough,” said Velarde.

When the plane flooded, the five managed to climb on the fuselage, where they remained for two terrible nights that were surrounded by Kaimanen and Anakondas and were attacked by swarms of mosquitoes and other insects.

They swiveled shirts and leaves without success and screamed every time they heard the thrust of drift pilder or turned a boat engine. On Friday, when we approached approaching motor boats, “we started shining and shining our mobile phone flashlights,” said Velarde.

A group of fishermen noticed and helped them in their canoe. They called the authorities and delivered them to a helicopter of the army a few hours later.

“We couldn't have managed it in one night,” said Velarde.

Bolivia's Vice Vice Minister of Bolivia praised the rescue operation.

“We are proud of the work that our rescue team does. Your commitment and professionalism have made it possible for the life of the stranded aircraft to be saved,” said Minister Edmundo Novillo in a statement. “This success is an example of the ability and efficiency of our armed and civilian defense forces in emergency situations.”