The mother of four young kids
who navigated the Amazon jungle for weeks after a plane crash survived the air accident, too — but was badly wounded and selflessly urged them to leave her to save themselves.
“My daughter has told me that their mother was alive for four days,” the children’s father, Manuel Ranoque, said to reporters,
according to the Guardian on Sunday.
But the mom, Magdalena Mucutuy, knew her days were numbered and that the kids’ chances of survival were better if they left the wreckage to look for food, water and help.
“Before she died, she said to them, ‘Maybe you should go. You guys are going to see the kind of man your dad is, and he’s going to show you the same kind of great love that I have shown you,’ ” Ranoque said.
The youngsters — ages 13, 9, 4 and 11 months — eventually left, sparking what ended up being an epic, 40-day, miraculous journey of survival that included them
living off a bag of cassava flour from the wreckage and seeds and fruit they found in the area after the May 1 crash in Colombia that killed their mother and two other adults.
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