A miracle called Martín, the baby who survived thanks to his mother in the Ubaté plane crash

Last Tuesday, October 13, Colombia was shocked by the spectacular accident of the HK 2335-G plane, when it was about to land at Guaymaral airport, north of Bogotá, and crashed into a tree. Three adults died in the incident and only the small one who accompanied them survived.

Dixon Gabriel Manzano, a Venezuelan migrant who lives in Ubaté and witnessed the accident, told Semana Magazine that, without thinking twice, When he saw that the aircraft hit the treetops with one of its wings and rushed to the ground, he ran to the place to see if there were any injuries.

He said that when he arrived at the place, accompanied by two other people, They found the baby, Martín Grandas Díaz, lying on the floor, next to the pilot and a few meters from the plane. “He cried and screamed very loud. It seemed that someone had thrown it to get him away from danger “, he assured the medium.

Although the other people warned him that it was dangerous to approach the child, that everything could explode at any moment, he went to check on the baby. Saw that I only had a few bruises and cuts, but I was fineWhen he approached the other occupants of the plane, he saw that the baby’s mother, Mayerly Díaz Rojas, managed to move her hands a little.

He told the media that the nanny, Nurys Masa, did not respond when he approached to see her, while Martín’s father, Dr. Fabio Grandas, had his hands on the wheel, which seemed to pierce his chest. “I don’t know anything about airplanes, but you can see that he fought a lot to save himself. I managed to say ‘corduroy, wake up, wake up’ ”.

The child was taken, initially, to the Ubaté hospital where he received first aid, then he was treated in the municipality of Chía, due to health problems, and finally He was admitted to the Santa Fe Foundation, where his father, the renowned specialist in kidney transplants, worked and where the minor remains recovering.

The information that the minor is recovering was shared by the director of the Cundinamarca Emergency Regulatory Center (CRUE), Javier Figueredo, who heads the team that cared for the victims of the disaster.

“He is stable, in the pediatric intensive care unit. Has trauma to the abdomen and chest, but is out of danger”, Assured Figueredo from the outskirts of the Santa Fe Foundation, in the north of Bogotá. He also confirmed that the minor is accompanied by his relatives.

On October 14, in Noticias Caracol, they assured that It was thanks to Mayerly Díaz that Martín survived. According to the media, the baby’s mother protected him with her own body and thus prevented the child from suffering serious injuries.

During an emergency, children “have to place them between their legs and lean them forward, to give them the greatest protection. Other than that, the mother’s protection of her son had to have influenced so that this minor did not present injuries that were vital to him”, Explained the director of CRUE of Cundinamarca.

However, In the story that Dixon Manzano made to Semana Magazine about the accident, he assures that, contrary to what the authorities of the department of Cundinamarca who attended the emergency say, the mother was riding in the passenger seat and the nanny in the back, so she deduces that it was Martín’s nanny who was carrying the baby before the accident.

The authorities are still working to establish how the accident of the plane piloted by the surgeon Fabio Grandas happened, while Colombians continue to cling to the light of hope that the little survivor represents. No matter what or who saved him from doom, Martín Grandas will be remembered for many years as the miracle baby who survived the tragedy.

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