'MIRACLE' MOM AND BABY RESCUED ALIVE FOUR DAYS AFTER JUNGLE PLANE CRASH

 

A Cessna 303 light aircraft is seen on June 24, 2015, after it crashed during a flight from Nuqui to Quibdo, Choco department in Colombia a few days earlier (Photo: AFP)

Bogota (afp) - a mother and her infant son who disappeared in a plane crash in the dense jungles of northwestern colombia several days ago were found alive and well in what authorities called a “miracle.”

Nelly murillo, 18, and her son yudier moreno, not yet one year old, were discovered near the site where the cessna 303 crashed on saturday in thick brush. They were found four days later. 

"It’s a miracle. It is a very wild area and it was a catastrophic accident,” Colonel Hector Carrascal, commander of the Colombian Air Force in Antioquia department, told AFP.

“His mother’s spirit must have given him strength to survive,” he said of the baby.

 

Nelly Murillo is put on a trolley as she and her baby arrive in Quibdo, Choco department in Colombia on June 24, 2015, after the light aircraft in which they were travelling crashed four days earlier in the forest          

Murillo and her son were taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital with minor injuries, said Carrascal, adding that he was stunned they were alive.