Colombia plane crash: Mum told children to leave her and get help

The parent of the children rescued aft 40 days successful the Amazon jungle told them to permission and find assistance arsenic she laic dying.

Magdalena Mucutuy survived for 4 days aft the level crash, Manuel Ranoque, the children's father, said.

Mr Ranoque said his eldest girl told him their parent urged them to "get out" and prevention themselves.

The siblings, aged 13, nine, five, and one, were rescued and airlifted retired of the jungle connected Friday.

They were moved to a subject infirmary successful the nation's superior Bogota, wherever they are receiving aesculapian care.

"The 1 happening that [13-year-old Lesly] has cleared up for maine is that, successful fact, her parent was live for 4 days," Mr Ranoque told reporters extracurricular the hospital.

"Before she died, their mum told them thing like, 'You guys get retired of here. You guys are going to spot the benignant of antheral your dada is, and he's going to amusement you the aforesaid benignant of large emotion that I person shown you," helium said.

More details person been emerging astir the children's clip successful the jungle and their miraculous rescue - including the archetypal things the children said erstwhile they were found.

Nicolas Ordonez Gomes, a subordinate of the hunt and rescue crew, recalled the infinitesimal they discovered the children.

"The eldest daughter, Lesly, with the small 1 successful her arms, ran towards me. Lesly said: 'I'm hungry,'" helium told nationalist broadcast transmission RTVC.

"One of the 2 boys was lying down. He got up and said to me: 'My mum is dead,'" helium added, to which rescuers responded with "positive words, saying that we were friends, that we were sent by the family".

Mr Gomes Ordonez said the lad replied: "I privation immoderate breadstuff and sausage."

In caller footage released connected Sunday of the children's rescue, the 4 siblings appeared to beryllium emaciated from the weeks they spent fending for themselves successful the wilderness.

Ms Mucutuy and her children had been travelling connected the Cessna 206 craft to Araracuara, successful Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, connected May 1 erstwhile it issued a mayday alert owed to motor failure.

She and 2 pilots were killed erstwhile it crashed. Their bodies were recovered astatine the clang tract by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help.

The missing children became the absorption of a immense rescue cognition involving dozens of soldiers and section people.

Rescuers tracked the children down aft spotting signs successful the jungle, including footprints and effect that had been bitten into.

Members of the children's assemblage had hoped that their cognition of fruits and jungle endurance skills would springiness them a amended accidental of remaining alive.

Astrid Cáceres, caput of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, said the timing of their ordeal meant the "the jungle was successful harvest" and they could devour effect that was successful bloom.