Category: Survivors

Child Plane Crash Survivors Get Medical Care in Bogota After Weeks in Jungle

BOGOTA—Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in a jungle in Colombia’s south following a deadly plane crash arrived in the capital Bogota early on Saturday for medical treatment. The siblings were found on Friday in Colombia’s Caqueta Province according to the country’s armed forces and were initially treated by military…


Sinners in Paradise

A passenger aircraft crashes in the mid-Pacific and some of the survivors reach an island inhabited only by an American, Jim Taylor, with his Chinese servant, Ping. He declines to help them, telling them to build their own shelter and gather their own food. The reason why he wants to remain undisturbed, we learn, is…


Flying Blind (1941)

A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness and the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire. “Flying Blind” is a 1941 American action and comedy film directed by Frank McDonald and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature…


Seven Were Saved (1947)

Shortly after World War II, a military transport plane carrying an assortment of passengers crashed into the South China Sea. The survivors were then forced into a life raft to await their rescue. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button…


Indonesian Fishermen Rescue 10 More Survivors of Sunken Boat

MAKASSAR, Indonesia—Ten more survivors of an Indonesian boat that sank three days earlier were rescued Monday by local fishermen, leaving 11 people still missing, an official said. The captain and other crew of the cargo vessel, which was carrying 42 people, were among those rescued Monday, said Djunaidi, head of the provincial search and rescue…


Experts Outline Health Guidelines for Cancer Survivors

A healthy diet and regular exercise are crucial for the long-term health of cancer survivors, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) guideline emphasizes. “The link to a healthy diet and regular exercise in long-term cancer survival has become even more clear during the last several years,” said Dr. Arif Kamal, chief patient officer at the cancer society….


Rescuers Search for Survivors After 10 Killed in Lagos Building Collapse

LAGOS—Rescuers on Tuesday dug through rubble searching for survivors a day after a luxurious high-rise building collapsed while under construction in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, as officials put the death toll at 10 and scores were reported missing. Emergency services used earth moving equipment to lift chunks of masonry at the site in the affluent…


Afghan Villagers Search for Survivors as Flash Flood Kills at Least 40

KABUL—Afghan villagers searched desperately for survivors after a flash flood swept down a narrow valley in a Taliban-controlled area, killing at least 40 people and destroying dozens of houses in the early hours of Thursday morning, officials said. Getting reliable information was difficult, according to Afghan officials, as Kamdesh district in the mountainous eastern province…


No Survivors From Plane Crash in Russia’s Far East, Rescue Officials Say

MOSCOW—There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying. The Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop was en route from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a village in the north of the Kamchatka peninsula, when it lost contact…


He Already Beat Cancer—Now, Joel Dahmen Will Celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day as a PGA Tour Winner Too

By Scott Hanson From The Seattle Times SEATTLE—First a career milestone, and now a life milestone. Joel Dahmen, the former University of Washington golfer and a Clarkston, Wash., native, celebrated his first victory on the PGA Tour at the end of March. Late last month, Dahmen celebrated his 10th anniversary of surviving cancer, meaning that…