Amazon Indians find Brazil plane crash survivors

[Judi Lynn]

Amazon Indians find Brazil plane crash survivors
Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:32pm GMT

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Native Indians in Brazil have found survivors from a military plane that crashed into the Amazon rain forest with 11 people on board, the air force said on Friday, without announcing how many or in what condition.
Local media reported that nine of the 11 people aboard had survived the crash.

The small aircraft, which went missing on Thursday, was carrying four crew members and seven health officials on a vaccination campaign in remote areas of the jungle.

Members of the Matis tribe near the Itui river in the western Amazon region found the wreckage of the C-98 Cessna plane and the survivors in the jungle, Brazil's air force said in a statement.

The air force dispatched a rescue team to the site, near where the borders of Brazil, Colombia and Peru meet.

The area is home to a handful of Indian tribes that have little contact with the outside world.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN3041197120091030?rpc=401

[Peace Patriot]

1. Hey, that's going to make a blockbuster movie! What a story!

Hate to ruin my fantasy of a fab drama about people overcoming culture shock, and being kind to each other, in the midst of tragedy and isolation, but I can't help but wonder if the health vaccination team in the crashed plane has brought disease to this low-contact bribe. It would be a sad but all too typical ending to outside contact. What a terrible irony it would be! The plane carrying vaccines; the passengers carrying germs.

You know what? I'm sorry I opened this thread.

:cry: :grouphug: :cry: