Posted on 06/10/2023 8:18:06 AM PDT by CFW
Four Colombian children were found alive Friday after they were missing for over a month from a deadly jungle plane crash, according to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
The children — whose ages range from 11 months to 13 years old — had been passengers on a plane that crashed May 1.
The flight departed from the southern town of Araracuara en route to a northern part of Colombia, when it experienced engine failure.
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This speaks highly of the survival skills of the older children, who managed to keep a one year-old alive under perilous circumstances. It also speaks of God's grace and his ability to work miracles that no man can aspire to.
No Playstations? No Sugar Frosted Bomb cereal for breakfast? No Dr. Pepper and Little Debbie snacks? What kids would want to live under those circumstances? Better to be swallowed alive by an anaconda than live without lifes necessities.
13, 9, 4, and 11 months.
I’m really impressed. The four year old would have to be cooperative in a way not always found in the west, the baby tough, and the older two far more skilled in environmental appropriate survival than 99%+ of Americans and Canadians.
“The four year old would have to be cooperative in a way not always found in the west, the baby tough, and the older two far more skilled in environmental appropriate survival than 99%+ of Americans and Canadians”
That’s so true. However, the child was probably used to following the directions of his/her older siblings. They have probably been in charge of the care and safety of their younger siblings since their birth. Our society had the same family structure only a generation or so ago. I remember at age seven or eight my sisters and I being in charge of my younger sister. We carried her around in a cardboard box when she was an infant, and fed and changed her without mother’s assistance (and we only dropped the box a few times).
Also impressive was the enormous effort undertaken to find these children. The Colombians were desperate to find them and never gave up.
A lot of instructors at Army survival school are wondering how you even get a baby to drink snake blood.
Without a doubt. These children had knowledge about this environment. An adult without that knowledge would have perished.
Well duh, cut off the tip of the tail and have the baby nurse on the snake...
I was “out of pocket” yesterday and read very little news. A search by “title” failed to show that this article, or even any article on the subject had been posted. Neither did a “Ctrl F” search of the front page.
The bugs in FR’s search feature is something we just have to live with. I try not to point out when multiple articles on the same subject are posted, since I’m well aware of those bugs, having been busted by them a number of times.
Mwa-ha-ha. :^) I forgot my usual “Earlier on FR”. Search by title is often a problem, not least because the title doesn’t always have what we expect.
One can only imagine the lifetime bonding experience and maturing the 13-year-old and 9-year-old have shared, and no mom to return to.
Use one word of more than 3 letters. Change search to ‘Title’.
‘Children’ yields:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=children
Every time I’ve searched First and not found and THEN posted a previously posted article I’ve been told “search still works”.
I suppose that’s true, it still works as well as it ever has for me...
Life changing certainly. Hard enough for an adult.
Four children aged 13, nine, four and 12 months are found ALIVE deep in the Colombian jungle FORTY DAYS after surviving plane crash that killed all the adults on board - kids are malnourished and bitten but otherwise OK
06/09/2023 9:22:48 PM PDT · by algore · 5 replies
daily mail ^
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4159789/posts
Colombia Plane Crash: Four Children Found Alive in Amazon After 40 Days
06/09/2023 6:54:11 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
BBC ^ | 6/10 | Aoife Walsh
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4159763/posts
Great news - and, they missed most of Gay Pride month - double good news !
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