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Children found alive after 40 days in Amazon jungle.

Trailrun23 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:00:21 GMT

Such a miracle! Four Columbian children, ages 11 months, 4 years, 9 years, and 11 years old, were found alive but malnourished after 40 days in the dense Amazon jungle. Searchers had dropped food and water into the jungle in hopes they would find it.It was not reported if they had discovered it.

The children survived a plane crash that killed the pilot, co-pilot, and their mother, age 33.

I had not expected a happy ending when I first heard about the crash.

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colleena — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:12:36 GMT

@Trailrun23 So glad to hear the good news that these kids were found & seem fine especially the one who was only 11 months old.

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Trailrun23 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:15:21 GMT

I assume the 11 year-old took the lead on caring for the baby...but they are all young. God certainly had His hand on their shoulders.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:34:41 GMT

There's a lot about this story that sounds fishy to me.

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Trailrun23 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:35:40 GMT

Fishy? what is fishy?

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chrystaltree — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:39:19 GMT

It was barely covered here in the US. I suppose because they are Columbian indigenous children. I subscribe to a couple of British papers online so Ive been following it for weeks along with the rest of the world. I don't think anyone held out much hope after all these weeks but they said the oldest child had received some type of jungle survival training that indigenous children receive. They believe that child knew enough to take charge and help everyone survive. It's a miraculous story. Just praying that they all fully recover, physically and mentally.

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chrystaltree — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:43:36 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
There's a lot about this story that sounds fishy to me.

So.... As this went on and on for weeks; some people were actually saying it was a hoax. Especially after the president of some country mistakenly said they'd cost been rescued. Apparently he got confused when he was told that indigenous trackers had found tracks and signs of them. It took another couple of weeks to find them.

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Carmie — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:43:49 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
There's a lot about this story that sounds fishy to me.

I agree. I have been following this story for some time. It was announced weeks ago that the children were found, but no info was available.

Now, all of a sudden, there are interviews and pictures.. The 11 year old supposedly had experience with survival skills...yeah right.

Two weeks ago, some outlets reported that this was a hoax with no proof. It looks like that they scrambled to get proof. It is very fishy and the story is inconsistent.

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Trailrun23 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:51:02 GMT

I think I heard about the survival training this morning..I saw a photo of the plane....it is amazing any of the chidren survived or were even able to get out of the plane by themselves. I am surprised there has been so little news about it...but the news is buzzing with lots of other things right now. It does sound like a miracle if the story is true, but if the whole thing is a hoax, what would be the motive?

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shoesnbags — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:47:30 GMT

@Trailrun23 wrote:
I assume the 11 year-old took the lead on caring for the baby...but they are all young. God certainly had His hand on their shoulders.

@Trailrun23

The account that I read last night gave the oldest child's age as 13. That would make more sense to me in terms of keeping the other children alive.

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On It — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:51:41 GMT

@shoesnbags I also understood the oldest was 13 from the coverage I read.

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Trailrun23 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:56:10 GMT

I think I have heard the ages of the children reported three different ways...that's how the media never gets things right. I remember hearing about the crash when it happened....but children were never mentioned as being any of the passengers.

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chrystaltree — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:00:36 GMT

@Trailrun23 wrote:
I think I heard about the survival training this morning..I saw a photo of the plane....it is amazing any of the chidren survived or were even able to get out of the plane by themselves. I am surprised there has been so little news about it...but the news is buzzing with lots of other things right now. It does sound like a miracle if the story is true, but if the whole thing is a hoax, what would be the motive?

What would be the motive? Also how did they get hundreds of people to all take part in the hoax? They had Indigenous trackers, the army soldiers, helicopter pilots, the children's families, medical personnel who were part of the rescue, the hospital the kids were taken to and the media that has been covering this story from the beginning

Ok...not hundreds. Maybe thousands of "hoaxters"?

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spumoni99 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:27:28 GMT

I hadn't heard of this story but thank god they were found. I can't believe that many people fit in that small plane.

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chrystaltree — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:33:05 GMT

@spumoni99 wrote:
I hadn't heard of this story but thank god they were found. I can't believe that many people fit in that small plane.

Huh???? It was just three adults and the 4 children in the plane when it crashed. The adults died in the crash.

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spumoni99 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:35:33 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
@spumoni99 wrote:
I hadn't heard of this story but thank god they were found. I can't believe that many people fit in that small plane.

Huh???? It was just three adults and the 4 children in the plane when it crashed. The adults died in the crash.

It looked like a small plane to me, my daughter trained on 4 seater planes and there are very small inside the 4 people she would fly were usually cramped. Not sure why that is hard to understand the plane just looks small to me for 6 plus an infant.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:54:23 GMT

This is good news .... and might be a very compelling movie of the week.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:56:20 GMT

@Trailrun23 wrote:
Fishy? what is fishy?

@Trailrun23 They said there was a 3 sq mile search area with lots of searchers. They couldn't find 4 kids in 40 days? The kids were apparently hiding for some reason so they got their grandma to record a msg asking them to stay in one place. How did they feed and care for an infant? How did the kids survive the crash where everyone else was killed without serious injuries?

You don't see lots of suspicious questions?

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spumoni99 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:02:24 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Trailrun23 wrote:
Fishy? what is fishy?
@Trailrun23 They said there was a 3 sq mile search area with lots of searchers. They couldn't find 4 kids in 40 days? The kids were apparently hiding for some reason so they got their grandma to record a msg asking them to stay in one place. How did they feed and care for an infant? How did the kids survive the crash where everyone else was killed without serious injuries?

You don't see lots of suspicious questions?

It looked like the damage was done to the front of the plane, maybe they were in the back? You would think mom would have been holding the baby but maybe one of the children was? Sounds like they were running from something so maybe that is why the children hid?

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Etoile308 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:16:13 GMT

My understanding was that those on the plane were fleeing from a nearby armed gang. The plane crashed soon after takeoff. Perhaps it was overweight.

There was food, water, and pamphlets with survival instructions and messages to stay in place in Spanish and their native language being dropped from planes.

I'm sure more details will eventually come out.