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air crash  58 survive Peru air crash  August 25, 2005 15:26 IST
Standing in a clearing near the flaming wreckage of a Peruvian
airliner, a family huddled around a baby boy who survived being
thrown from the aircraft after it crash-landed and splintered in
the Amazon.  "My uncle told us, 'Let us pray' and we were
silent," said Joshelyn Vivas, 15. "Hail was coming down on us
and we went into like a cocoon around the baby."  TANS airline
said wind shear on Tuesday afternoon might have forced the
pilot's emergency landing, which killed four crewmembers and at
least 33 passengers. But 58 others survived the crash-landing,
among them, the Vivas family from Brooklyn, New York. "We jumped
out the plane and unfortunately we were thigh deep in the marsh
water. It was just mud," said the girl's uncle, Gabriel Vivas, a
41-year-old manager of an electronics rental shop. "We had to
practically crawl out