After 40 days of searching, the news of the miracle arrived this Friday: the military forces found the four children who were lost since May 1 in the jungles of southern Colombia after suffering a plane crash in the plane they were traveling with their mother and two other adults, whose bodies were found lifeless.
The Cessna aircraft with registration HK 2803, operated by Avianline Charter's, had departed on 1 May from Araracuara, a remote town on the border between the departments of Caquetá and Amazonas. It had to reach San José del Guaviare, about 350 kilometers to the north, almost in the center of the country. He didn't.
When it was approximately 175 kilometers south of its destination, over the jungle and near the Apaporis River, the flight was declared in emergency due to an engine failure. They recently found it in the middle of the immensity of the Colombian Amazon, in the vicinity of the Palma Rosa hamlet, in the municipality of Solano (Caquetá).
They found alive the four children who had been lost in the jungle of Colombia 40 days ago
At that time they found the three adults: the pilot of the aircraft, an indigenous representative and the mother of the children. All of them were dead. Then the work was accelerated to find the whereabouts of the four minors, between 13 years and 11 months of age, who were only found this Friday, June 9.
Three dead and the miracle of the four children: who were the occupants of the plane that crashed in the jungle in Colombia
With the discovery of the aircraft, the remains of the three people who lost their lives in the crash also appeared. They are Magdalena Mucutuy, Herman Mendoza Hernández and Hernando Murcia Morales.
Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia was 33 years old. She was the mother of the four young men who accompanied her on the flight. He was an indigenous Muinane of the Chumujo clan, from the Puerto Sabalo community.
Three people died in the crash in Colombia: the pilot, an indigenous representative and the mother of the boys of whom there are doubts about whether they were found.
"We extend our most sincere condolences and accompany their families and friends in their pain," lamented the National Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (OPIAC), an entity that participated in the emergency operation in the jungle.
Her husband, Manuel Ranuque, governor of the Puerto Sabalo indigenous reservation, left the community two months ago after receiving threats from guerrillas. He moved to the city of Villavicencio, in the Eastern Plains. There he hoped to receive his family, and then go all together to Bogotá and start a life from scratch.
"Dad told them, 'Come quick, quick, quick. That's why my niece and children boarded that plane. He is to blame," complained Fidencio Valencia, uncle of the children's mother.
Herman Mendoza Hernandez was 57. He was a well-known activist in the struggle for the rights of indigenous peoples and for human rights. He was part of OPIAC, which also bid him farewell with a heartfelt message and declared three days of mourning.
"We have no words to communicate the feelings that overwhelm us as companions of Hermán, as brothers of his life and his dreams," they said from that organization. And they continued: "Spirits never die, least of all those like Hermán's: committed to life, culture, joy, affection, the brotherhood of indigenous peoples, respect in differences."
The Commission on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples also expressed itself with pain and stressed its "commitment, courage and dedication in the defense of culture and mother earth will be remembered and honored."
Three people died in the crash that survived the four children in Colombia: the pilot, an indigenous representative and the mother of the boys whose whereabouts are in doubt.
Captain Hernando Murcia Morales, 55, defined himself in his job profiles as "professional at Raro Serviços Auxiliares de Transporte Aereo," a company based in Salvador, Brazil. On Monday, May 1, he was in command of the tragedy flight, operated by Avianline Charter's.
"Hello, how are you? How are the girls? How are you?. You send them a kiss and a hug from me," was the last communication that Murcia Morales had with his wife, Olga Vizcaíno, that Monday at 3 in the morning. Six hours later it was scheduled to take off.
He had a habit of calling his partner and daughters after landing. Their silence, before the aircraft was lost, was the first family warning sign.
Three people died in the crash that survived the four children in Colombia: the pilot, an indigenous representative and the mother of the boys whose whereabouts are in doubt.
In addition, he revealed that one of his daughters had a premonitory dream about what was announced as the rescue of this Wednesday. "The eldest dreamed of the children, she told me: 'Mom, I dreamed of the child, I dreamed that he was crying and he wiped my tears, so I asked him if he was alive and he said yes.'"
"The children" are the four minors who went with their mother. They are called Lesly Mucutuy (13 years old), Soleiny Mucutuy (9), Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy (4) and Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy (1 year old). They are the children of the woman who died in the accident.
It is estimated that about 7,000 people recognize themselves as part of that village. "The problem of drug trafficking has deeply affected them, since the groups outside the law that cohabit with them, make them participants in the illicit work that they carry out in the production and processing of cocaine, widespread in the region and that leave great dividends," says a report prepared for the Colombian Ministry of Culture.
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