Amazon Tribe Finds Plane Crash Survivors
Pretty amazing story coming out of Brazil today as a tribe of Indians located nine survivors of a plane that crashed in a river in the Amazon rain forest with 11 people onboard.
From CNN:
Of the two people missing — a passenger and a crew member — one is believed to be dead. The air force did not provide further details.
The plane was on its way to deliver health supplies Thursday when it crashed. It had taken off from Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre state and was headed to Tabatinga in Amazonas state.
The plane landed in the Itui River between the tribe settlements of Aurelio and Rio Novo. Indians of the Matis tribe, who live in Aurelio, initially located the plane and alerted the Brazilian air force, which sent search planes to the site.
Before the passengers were located, at least eight aircraft had been dispatched for the search operation, the air force said.
Tags: Air Force, Amazon, Amazon Crash, Amazon Survivors, Brazil, CNN, Crash Survivors, Cruzeiro, Itui River, Plane Crash
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October 31, 2009 at 6:37 pm
This IS Amazing, and Good News. But do Indians have Cell Phones? Did they Ride on Horseback to the Air Force?? I mean, I’m Picturing the TeePees and stuff out in the middle of Nowhere. Just curious.
November 1, 2009 at 6:05 am
Hi Honeydog, good question, I suppose they didn’t alert the authorothies by drum either, so they probably have a sort of communication, radio or phones, fax ? (ESP??)
It is not a lost tribe, I suppose. Just living in a remote area.
November 2, 2009 at 10:10 am
There are no teepees in the Amazon……….good grief.
November 3, 2009 at 2:38 am
Thanks you two. (Call me an Idiot, Pardon my lack of Knowledge…. I really didn’t know!)
November 3, 2009 at 2:46 am
Nah that is not so strange lol, I didn’t know what to call those huts there either.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherbyrd/2453999343/ they look something like this I suppose?