The local authorities said that five people were rescued after spending 36 hours over a plane in a crocodile swamp in the Amazon after being forced to achieve a decline in emergency situations.
The small plane was found by local fishermen in the Amazonas area of Bolivia on Friday lost for 48 hours.
Wilson Avila, director of the Ministry of Emergency Operations Center, said that the survivors – three women, children and pilots of 29 years of age – were rescued in an “excellent condition”.
The mission of search and rescue was launched on Thursday after the plane disappeared from the radar of a ministry in the center of Bolivia.
The local pilot told the local media that the engine failure had pushed an emergency landing near the iTanomas during a BARURS trip in the north of Bolivia to Trinidad.
Andres Villardi said that the plane suddenly started to lose the height and was forced to land in the craft in a quagmire near a lake.
The five who were on the plane stood at the head of the plane and were “surrounded by crocodiles, which came three meters away from us.”
Villardi added that he believed that gasoline leakage from the plane had kept predators in the Gulf. They also saw Anaconda in water.
While waiting for the rescue, they ate the local Kusava flour that a passenger brought.
“We were unable to drink water and we were unable to go anywhere else because of crocodiles,” Villardi said.
After discovering the craft hunters, a helicopter was sent to transport the survivors to the hospital.
Robin Torres, director of the Ministry of Health in the Bani area, said that there was “a lot of speculation about the issue” and “many theories” after losing the plane.
He told Reuters: “I am really happy because in the end all institutions joined together to be able to find missing people and save those lives,” he told Reuters.
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