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.
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.
“The lady has wounds and minor burns and apparently the child is unharmed,” the Colombian Air Force said in a statement.
The plane’s pilot, Captain Carlos Mario Ceballos, died in the crash and rescuers found his body in the aircraft.
They discovered the doors of the plane ajar and suspected that survivors may have climbed out.
A 14-person search-and-rescue team scoured the dense forest for several days before finding the mother and child.
The rescue team was on the last day of its work when the mother and child appeared near the site of the crash, Carrascal said.
The
plane offered air taxi services between remote areas in northwest
Colombia. It was traveling between Nuqui and Quibdo when it was declared
missing, authorities said.
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