Five people survived 36 hours perched on top of a plane wreck in an alligator-infested swamp in the Amazon.
Three women, a child and the small plane's pilot were discovered by fishermen on Friday.
All are said to be in "excellent condition" despite their long ordeal “surrounded by alligators that came within three metres”.
The group was found 48 hours after the aircraft went missing in Bolivia’s Amazonas region, The Telegraph reports.
The plane embarked from the town of Baures to the central city of Trinidad - 112 miles away - when it came into difficulties.
Pilot Andres Velarde, 29, says the plane began to suffer engine failure which led to an emergency landing near the Itanomas River.
Mr Velarde said the plane quickly lost altitude and he was forced to land it in a swamp close to the lagoon's edge.
All five people then managed to clamber out of the plane and sit on its roof, surrounded by treacherous swamp waters.
Mr Velarde said: “We couldn’t drink water and we couldn’t go anywhere else because of the alligators."
At one point, the group spotted an anaconda in the water and alligators swam up to them within three metres (around 10ft).
Mr Velarde added that he suspects the aircraft's leaking fuel was the only thing which warded off the predators.
To survive, the group ate local cassava flour that one of the passengers had brought along for the trip.
Small planes, dubbed “air taxis”, are a popular choice in the region due to its lack of road infrastructure, making travel by car or bus virtually impossible.
Ruben Torres, head of the Beni region health department, said: “I am truly pleased because, in the end, all the institutions collaborated effectively to locate the missing individuals and save those lives.”
He added there were “many theories” and “a lot of speculation about the case” during the two days the plane was missing.
