{"id":128131,"date":"2015-06-25T10:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=128131"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:30:08","slug":"mother-and-baby-survive-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=128131","title":{"rendered":"Mother and baby survive plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young mother and her baby have been found alive five days after their plane crashed in the jungle of western Colombia.<\/p>\n

A Colombian Air Force chief described their survival as “a miracle”.<\/p>\n

Maria Nelly Murillo, 18, and her one-year-old son were found by rescuers near to where their small Cessna plane crashed in Choco province.<\/p>\n

Ms Murillo had some injuries and burns while her baby appeared to be in good health.<\/p>\n

Contact lost<\/strong><\/p>\n

The twin-engine Cessna plane, which was carrying fish and coconuts, had been flying from the town of Nuqui on the Pacific coast to Quibdo, the capital of Choco.<\/p>\n

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Baby Yudier Moreno was held by a rescuer on the flight back to Quibdo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It disappeared from the radar of the civil aviation authorities 20 minutes into the flight.<\/p>\n

When the pilot did not respond to any calls, officials knew something was wrong and despatched a plane to search the area.<\/p>\n

It took the search team two days until they finally spotted a white dot in the dense jungle, which turned out to be the remains of the Cessna.<\/p>\n

It had crashed, for reasons not yet known, in the Alto Baudo region.<\/p>\n

When the search team reached the Cessna, they found its pilot, Carlos Mario Ceballos, dead in the cockpit.<\/p>\n

Glimmer of hope<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was no trace of Ms Murillo or her baby, Yudier Moreno, which the passenger list said had been on board.<\/p>\n

But according to Col Hector Carrascal of the Colombian Air Force, rescuers took hope when they noticed that the cabin door was ajar.<\/p>\n

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Search and rescue aircraft found the wreck of the plane. The cause of the crash is unclear<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It could have opened on impact, but it could have been opened from the inside,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But that’s when we started to worry. We didn’t have a clue what had happened to them: they could be lost in the jungle trying to survive or they could have died already.”<\/p>\n

But then the rescuers found clues which led them to believe Ms Murillo and her baby could still be alive.<\/p>\n

Coconut shells near the plane and a discarded flip flop in the jungle lifted their hopes.<\/p>\n

They also found the baby’s birth certificate near a tree, which convinced them that Ms Murillo was trying to leave a trace of her path through the jungle.<\/p>\n

Part of the search party scoured the jungle on foot while others flew over the area in a helicopter using a loudspeaker to shout Ms Murillo’s name and urge her to return to the crash site.<\/p>\n

But for two days their search yielded no results.<\/p>\n

‘Miracle’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, on Wednesday, they located Ms Murillo about 500m from the site of the crash in a ravine on the banks of a river.<\/p>\n

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Ms Murillo and her baby were taken by helicopter to a hospital in Quibdo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It’s a miracle. It is a very wild area and it was a catastrophic accident,” Col Carrascal said.<\/p>\n

Of the baby, he said: “His mother’s spirit must have given him strength to survive.”<\/p>\n

The couple were airlifted to a hospital in Quibdo.<\/p>\n

Ms Murillo told medical staff that she had managed to open the cabin door and run into the jungle as fire was spreading in the cabin.<\/p>\n

She then reportedly went back for her baby, at which time she sustained burns to her face, an arm and a leg.<\/p>\n

Afraid the plane might explode, she walked into the jungle along the bank of a small river.<\/p>\n

Details of how she survived are still sketchy, but local media said she came across a couple of indigenous people who helped her.<\/p>\n

She was also able to drink coconut water from the coconuts the plane had been carrying, local media said.<\/p>\n

She reportedly heard the calls over loudspeaker from the rescue helicopter which prompted her to make her way back to the crash site.<\/p>\n

She is being treated for her injuries in hospital. Her baby son is said to be unharmed.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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