Five people have been rescued after spending 36 hours atop a plane in an alligator-infested swamp in the Amazon after it was forced to make an emergency landing, local authorities said.
The small plane was found by local fishermen in Bolivia’s Amazonas region on Friday having been missing for 48 hours.
The survivors - three women, a child and the 29-year-old pilot - were rescued in “excellent condition”, Wilson Avila, director of the Beni Department’s emergency operations centre, said.
A search and rescue mission was launched on Thursday after the plane disappeared from the radar of the Beni Department in central Bolivia.
Infested?
Their home that is!
Yeah, people need to stop calling it that. An infestation implies they’re not supposed to be there.
The correct term is “alligator-inhabited”.
An infestation implies they’re not supposed to be there.
Alternate headline: Alligators survive 36 hours in human infested swamp
It’s not the alligators, it’s the mosquitos
Indeed. Gators are just chubby salamanders
And the ants. Hell. The green inferno.
"When asked how they managed to fend off the reptiles, crash survivor Amos Moses said, “I just knock 'em in da head wit a stump.”
The Louisiana law gon’ get you Amos
The alligators were very accomodating.
Wouldn’t it be caiman-infested in Bolivia and not alligator-infested? It’s South America.
No smoke monsters? Meh.
If the kid was left behind, it would eventually become Blanka.
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