PILOT CRASHES IN AMAZON, SPENDS FIVE WEEKS IN JUNGLE

A Brazilian pilot who crashed in the Amazon has been rescued after spending 36 days in the jungle. Antonio Sena, 36, went missing on January 28 after taking off from the city of Alenquer, on the northern bank of the Amazon River, bound for the nearby city of Almeirim. His plane suffered mechanical failure and he made a forced landing in a clearing. He managed to grab a rucksack with some bread and other belongings inside before the plane caught fire. Sena spent a week close to his burnt-out Cessna 210 while search and rescue planes circled overhead without spotting him. After a week, the planes stopped coming, so he assumed the search had been called off. He took off on foot through the jungle, living on bird eggs and wild fruit for the next five weeks. He was found on Saturday afternoon after he stumbled across some chestnut pickers. Mr. Sena said, “The only thing that kept me strong and enabled me to come out of that situation alive was (* bird eggs and wild fruit?) the love I have for my family, the desire I had to see my parents and my brother and sister again.” He added, “It’s a story of love and faith.”
* Ehh… we’ll come up with our own tag line for the movie, thank you.
* Yeah, those Amazon warehouses can be pretty big, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting lost in th— oh, wait – he was in the Amazon JUNGLE. That’s different.
* The adventure wasn’t a total waste. He was crowned king of a tribe of howler monkeys.
* “By the way, thanks for all the help getting me back safe, Wakanda!”
* Gee, if his had flown just a little farther before he crashed, he could have had “♪♫ Chestnuts roasting on a plane on fire … ♫”