Bolivia Avine Crash Survivors recorded the 36 -hour test in the swamp:

It was after his little plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week that his terrible experience really began.

After crashing into the ground, the plane turned into an infesting lagoon of anacondas and caimanes, sinking the pilot and four passengers, including a 6 -year -old boy, in the heartbreaking 36 hours after the plane of the plane Before being rescued on Friday in the northeast of this Andean nation.

The doctor who treated the five survivors told News on Saturday that everyone was aware and in a stable condition, and only the 37 -year -old aunt of the young man still hospitalized by an infected wound in the head. The rest were discharged and recovering from dehydration, minor chemical burns, infected cuts, bruises and insect bites in all their bodies.

The Vice President of Civil Defense of Bolivia published videos and dramatic images of the group that was rescued on Friday.

“We could not believe it, they were not attacked and left by dead,” said Dr. Luis Soruco, director of the hospital where the survivors were delivered in the tropical province of Beni in Bolivia, by phone after sending the pilot and two of the women home with a strong antibiotic course.

The pilot, Pablo Andrés Velarde, 27, emerged on Friday to tell the story that has transfigured many Bolivians, a rare news of a nation that needs a long time after years of a spiral economic and political crisis.

“The mosquitoes did not let us sleep,” Velarde told journalists from his hospital cot in the provincial capital of Trinidad, where Dr. Soruco said he was surprisingly good health and spirit. “The caimanes and snakes saw us all night, but they did not approach.”

Surprised that the Caimanes, a kind of the native crocodile family of Central and South America, did not attacked them, Velarde speculated that it was the fuel stench for airplanes that spill from the remains that had kept the predatory reptiles at bay, although there is no scientific evidence that it is an effective aligator repellent.

Velarde said the five survived when eating cassava flour on the ground that one of the women had brought as a snack. They had nothing to drink: the water of the lagoon was full of gasoline.

The small plane had left Wednesday since the Baures village of Bolivian, destined for the largest city in Trinidad further south, where Patricia Coria Guary had a medical check -up programmed for her 6 -year -old nephew at the Pediatric hospital, said Dr. Soruco. Two other women, neighbors of Baures, 32 and 54, joined them.

These flights are a common form of transport in this remote Amazon region carved with rivers. Heavy rains wash unfaled roads at this time of year.

But only 27 minutes, almost halfway, on the flight, the solitary engine of the plane was cut. Velarde said he reported his imminent accident on a portable radio to a colleague.

He remembered in interviews with the local media that scanned the vast waste of Emerald under him and pointed to a cleaning near a lagoon.

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

Instead of sliding through the shore as planned, the plane crashed into the ground and turned upside down, wounding everyone on board and leaving Coria Guary with a specially deep cut on the forehead, before splacing in the water.

“The landing was very hard,” Velarde said.

When the plane was flooded, the five managed to climb on the fuselage, where they stayed for two scary nights surrounded by whore and anacondas and attacked by mosquito swarms and other insects.

They were shirts and sheets in vain and shouted every time they listened to the deaf noise of the propellers or the acceleration of a boat engine. On Friday, to the sound of approaching the motor boots, “we begin to shine the flashlights and screams of our cell phones,” Velarde said.

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

“We couldn’t have handled it one more night,” said Velarde.

The Vice Minister of Civil Defense of Bolivia praised the rescue operation.

“We are proud of the work that our rescue team does. His dedication and professionalism have allowed the life of the crew of the stranded plane to save,” Minister Edmundo Novillo said in a statement. “This success is an example of the capacity and efficiency of our armed and civil defense forces in emergency situations.”

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