The five survivors, including a 6-year-old boy, spent 36 hours in the predator-infested swamp area before being rescued on Friday by some fishermen. Five people survived an intensive ordeal after ...

Five people were rescued after they survived 36 hours atop a plane in an alligator-infested swamp in the Bolivian Amazon after they were forced to make an emergency landing, local officials and ...

"There was no ranch or road along the route," he said. "It was just swamp." Instead of skidding across the shore as planned, the plane smashed into the ground and flipped upside down — injuring ...

Clear, open spaces are not easy to find in the Amazon, but Velarde brought the plane down in a swamp near the Itanomas River. The rough landing flipped the plane upside down, shaking up the ...

Terrifying footage of the rescue operation showed the group of five huddled on top of the sinking plane as emergency service personnel pulled them off. According to local authorities, the swamp ...

told local media from his hospital bed that the plane suddenly began to lose altitude. He looked for an open space to land but had to settle for a swamp near a lagoon. The five found themselves ...

Survivors of a plane crash needed to spend 36 hours perched on top of the aircraft after it plummeted into an alligator-filled swamp. The survivors, three women, a child and the pilot, were found ...

Three women, a child, and the 29-year-old pilot were found sat on top of their capsized plane in the middle of a swamp. They managed to survive by eating a local cassava flour that one of the ...

Five people survived 36 hours surrounded by alligators after their plane crashed into a swamp in the Amazon, the pilot has told local media. A child, three women and the pilot of the light ...

FIVE plane crash survivors have been rescued after spending a terrifying 36 hours trapped in an alligator-infested swamp. The pilot, a young child and three women all narrowly escaped death after ...