Colombia plane crash: Four children found alive in Amazon after 40 days

Not juicy enough. Was the plane red or blue?

What an amazing story. Miraculous actually.

 

These kids will grow up self-sufficient, can-do, self starters who won’t take anything for granted. These are the people who move North to become American conservatives.

 

Small footprints were also discovered, which led search teams to believe the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators.

 

I see you put Kahlua in your coffee this morning

 

I saw something that insinuated they were helped by indigenous people but didn’t really come out and say it. Seems the only thing that makes sense because I can’t conceive of a 1 year old surviving in that environment.

Great story. These kids learned how to care for others, put them first and survive in a collective. It truly takes a village. They’ll emigrate to the states and become reliable DemoncRAT voters.

 

Or maybe they are literally people who will eat their friends if it serves their interest. These are the people who move North to become American conservatives.

 

Yikes!

now watch certain posters attack you for making this story political when you were simply replying to someone who made it political first LOL

 

Nah, that just his resting face.

 

Never underestimate the power of the human spirit.

 

I cannot be the only one who thinks they will be an amazing bit of mythology or perhaps it's legitimate arising from the fact that they were out in a wilderness for 40 days. Not 39 days, not 41 days, but 40 days. Unless the authorities manipulated timing to give it a bit more ethereal quality

 

Yellow Jackets spin-off. We can be civilized

 

I think we need to consider that these kids were from an indigenous tribe and likely grew up in that environment and possessed skill sets that most kids do not. Still an amazing story of survival even if they were aided by local groups.

The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. Mr Petro shared a photograph of several members of the military and Indigenous community caring for the siblings, who had been missing for 40 days.
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She said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle.

"She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume," Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.

 

Let's be honest. These are the people who move north towards American and get labeled as "migrant caravans" on Fox while Republicans furiously try to lock down the border and keep them out. The only difference is these kids have a story.

 

Yay team

 

Everyone can you please drop the point scoring. This is an amazing story of four young people surviving a horrific event.
All the children were use to working together and I’d imagine surviving to some extent on their own… but forty days? I’m the jungle. That is beyond belief.
How long would all the “survival” of Xperia last in such a situation. Young children (baby really) to care for, no guidance from parents, grief stricken…
I’d argue most would not survive.
I hope these children get counseling and grow to lead their tribe.

 

We have to stop politicizing everything. Even if it's a joke. It's a great story on it's own. I know you probably meant well. I just see your post and feel like we all have to stop this type of response. We're going to all have to help pull the right back toward the middle.

EDIT: Let me guess. You were responding to someone I have blocked? If so, major apologies and shame on them. Glad I made the right call.

 

Yup. I took everyone off ignore to see who politicized this story. I'm glad to put you back on ignore. I do not understand why you are so miserable.

 

@jhenderson - Thank you for posting this story. It reminded me of another I read in a book entitled "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why" by Laurence Gonzales.



My elder son, formerly a trauma surgeon in the USAF, was stationed for 4 or 5 months with a contingent of SEALS and other Special Forces on Jolo Island, Philippines in 2007. He told me the group of highly trained soldiers had several copies of Gonzales' book and were passing them around and discussing it. He said the discussions among these men were fascinating to hear.

Here is a portion of the book I recalled when reading the OP of this thread:

"Juliane Koepcke was flying with her mother and ninety other passengers on Christmas Eve, 1971, when lightning struck, causing an extensive structural failure of the Lockheed Electra. Juliane fell out of the broken airplane into the Peruvian jungle. She was seventeen years old, wearing her Catholic confirmation dress and white high heels. Miraculously, she suffered only cuts and a broken collarbone from the crash. Later, she reported feeling "a hefty concussion." Then she was falling toward the jungle.

"As she recalled, "I remember thinking that the jungle trees below looked just like cauliflowers." To someone who knows about survival, that statement is telling. She wasn't screaming; she wasn't in a panic. She was in wonder at the world in which she found herself. She was taking it all in, touching her new reality. Checking out her environment while falling. Amazing cool.

"Amazing and also characteristic of a true survivor. Bill Garleb, an American GI who survived the Bataan Death March1in the Philippines, found his senses increasingly sharp as he experienced a deep wonder at the birds and colors and smells of the jungle.

"A dozen other passengers survived the midair disintegration of Juliane's plane, and their attitude, and hence their behavior and fate, were quite different from hers. Juliane awoke alone on the floor of the jungle, still strapped into her seat. There was no sign of her mother, who'd been beside her in the plane. She spent the night trying to keep out of the rain under her seat. The next day, she deduced that even the helicopters and airplanes she could hear wouldn't be able to see her through the jungle canopy. She'd have to get herself out. It was another important moment: She didn't spend time bemoaning her fate. She looked to herself, took responsibility, made a plan."

 

Good riddance.