La Paz, Bolivia - Their ordeals really began after their small plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week.

After hitting the ground, the plane crashed into a lagoon with Anacondas and Alligators, crashed the pilot and four passengers (including a 6-year-old boy) into a painful 36 hours, taking 36 hours to cling to the wreckage of the plane before being rescued in the northern part of the Andes country.

The doctor who treated five survivors told the Associated Press that they were conscious and stable on Saturday, with only the little boy's 37-year-old aunt still hospitalized on her head. The rest are discharged and recovered from dehydration, and are spread across the body with secondary chemical burns, infected cuts, bruises and insect bites.

"We can't believe they were not attacked and died," said Dr. Luis Soruco, director of the hospital, on the phone in the Tropical Beni Province, Bolivia, after delivering pilots and two women who feed on powerful antibiotics.

Pilot Pablo Andrés Velarde, 27, appeared on Friday, telling the stories of many Bolivians, a rare and exciting news that desperately needs the country after years of economic and political crises.

Velarde told reporters that his hospital crib told reporters: "Mosquitoes won't let us fall asleep." "Crocodiles and snakes looked at us all night, but they didn't get close."

Velarde said in shock that Caimans (pronounced Kay-Men) is a species in Central and South America that did not stab them, but Velarde speculated that it was the odor of jet fuel spilling out of the wreckage, keeping the predatory reptiles BAY, although there is no scientific evidence that is effective Alligator repelllent.

Five of the women brought snacks, Velarde said, and the five survived. They have nothing to drink - the lagoon water is filled with gasoline.

Dr. Soruco said the small plane departed Wednesday from the village of Powers in the Bolivian village, which headed further south to larger Trinidad, where Patricia Coria Guary arranged for her six-year-old nephew at the pediatric hospital. Two other women, neighbors from Baures, 32 and 54, joined them.

This flight is a common form of transportation in the remote Amazon region carved with rivers. This time of year, heavy rain washed away the unpaved roads.

But only 27 minutes (almost half) into the flight, the plane's lonely engine cuts open. Velarde said he reported to colleagues about their upcoming crash on a portable radio.

He recalled in an interview with local media that he scanned the huge emerald green canopy beneath him and was designed to clean up near the lagoon.

“There are no pastures or roads along the way,” he said. “That’s just a swamp.”

Instead of gliding on the shore as planned, the plane smashed to the ground and turned upside down - hurting everyone on the boat and leaving Coria Guary especially deeply on the forehead before splashing into the water.

“The landing is very difficult,” Villad said.

Five of them managed to climb to the top of the fuselage as the planes flooded, where they lived for two horrifying nights surrounded by the Kyrimans and Anacodas and were attacked by large crowds of mosquitoes and other insects.

They waved their shirts and sheets to no avail, screaming every time they heard the sensation of propellers or the rise of a boat engine. On Friday, in the sound of approaching the motorboat, "we started to shine on the phone flashlight and yelled," Velarde said.

A group of fishermen noticed and helped them into the canoe. They called the authorities and transported it to the Army helicopter a few hours later.

"We can't handle it for another night," Velarde said.

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Debre reports Buenos Aires, Argentina.