LA PAZ – A Bolivian salesman was found alive in the Amazon jungle yesterday nearly three days after a small aircraft crashed, killing everyone else aboard.
Nine people were travelling on the Fairchild Aerospace Metro when it went missing near the city of Trinidad on Tuesday, but when rescuers only found eight bodies and kept searching.
“From several kilometres away, we saw a man on the river bank signalling to us,” said naval capt David Bustos, who led the rescue operation. “He said hed been trapped in the plane for more than 15 hours and survived by drinking his own urine and water from a lagoon.” – (Reuters)