The plane, a Cessna 206, along with the bodies of the adults, were found Monday in a forest, officials said. Una alegría para el país.- Gustavo Petro Engine failureĪccording to a preliminary investigation by officials, Avianline Charters Flight HK 280, was carrying seven people between Araracuara in Amazonas province and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare, when it apparently suffered an engine failure before it went down, killing the pilot, another adult and the children's mother.
Photos released by the Colombian army, which deployed more than 100 soldiers and search dogs to locate the children, show hair ties, scissors and a baby bottle found Wednesday on the jungle forest floor in a rural area of the municipality of Solano.ĭespués de arduas labores de búsqueda de nuestras Fuerzas Militares, hemos encontrado con vida a los 4 niños que habían desaparecido por el accidente aéreo en Guaviare. The agency said Wednesday the four boys and girls had "been found alive and that they are also in good health," and their priority is now reuniting the children with their families.Īs of Thursday morning, officials had not released the location where the children were discovered or the identities of the adults who died. The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) said the May 1 crash, which claimed the lives of three adults, took place on the border between Caquetá and Guaviare in the southern central region of the country, about 250 miles south of the country's capital of Bogota.
"After arduous search efforts by our Military Forces, we have found alive the 4 children who had disappeared due to the plane crash," President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday, declaring "joy for the country."
Update: Colombian President Guastavo Petro now says the family welfare institute's report on children surviving the crash cannot be confirmed and the search is ongoing.Ī baby is among four children found alive in the Amazon forest more than two weeks after surviving a plane crash that killed their mother and two other people, Colombian leaders confirmed Thursday.
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