Colombian authorities said Monday that the four children who have been missing in the Amazon jungle for nearly a month were "alive" The Cessna 206 in which the three children aged 4, 9 and 13 and an 11-month-old baby were traveling had disappeared from radar on May 1. The search around the wreckage of the aircraft covers an area of about 323 square kilometers, three times the area of Paris intramural.

According to the children's grandfather, the eldest of the siblings from an indigenous Uitoto is "strong" and "intelligent"