https://digivn.dw.com/view/250504-09-0735

Lower thirds:
0:03  Report by / Melissa Kent
0:48  Ruben Torres / Beni Region Health Department

1:36  Pablo Andres Velarde / Piloto

Script:

After 36 hours of clinging to the plane's wreckage - and each other

A search and rescue helicopter with Bolivia's Air force

reaches the survivors - thanks to a tip from local fishermen in the Amazonian jungle

who heard their cries

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The survivors were airlifted to the nearby city of Trinidad for treatment

Among them - a six-year old boy who was traveling with his aunt when the small plane went down.

There were two more women on the aircraft - as well as the pilot

Despite their ordeal - no one in the group was seriously injured 

Roads and highways are scarce in this remote region of the Amazon rainforest in northeastern Bolivia

Small planes are a common means of transporation

:48 SOT: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DIRECTOR OF THE BENI REGIONAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, RUBEN TORRES, SAYING: 
"At certain moments - there were many theories - a lot of speculation about the case. But I'm really happy because in the end all the institutions joined together to find the missing people and save those lives. And now they're receiving the attention they need, being with their families is important."

The plane was traveling from the town of Baures to the city of Trinidad in north-central Bolivia

But the engine cut out soon after takeoff - the pilot radio'd to say he was making an emergency landing 

in the Amazonian jungle  

Now back home with his wife

The pilot says the group survived by eating cassava flour and chocolate

They had nothing to drink — because the lagoon water was filled with gasoline.

1:49 - 2:19 (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PILOT, PABLO ANDRES VELARDE, SAYING:
“The second night, and again, mosquitos were terrible at one point. And again, big lizards and caimans - like alligators - surrounded us. I’m not overstating it. We could hear them around us hunting and roaring. It was dangerous.”

Velarde thinks leaking fuel from the plane may have kept the reptiles at bay