{"id":11999,"date":"2021-12-22T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/57-year-old-general-survives-helicopter-crash-then-swims-for-12-hours-to-escape-photos\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:05:32","slug":"57-year-old-general-survives-helicopter-crash-then-swims-for-12-hours-to-escape-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/57-year-old-general-survives-helicopter-crash-then-swims-for-12-hours-to-escape-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"57-year-old general survives helicopter crash, then swims for 12 hours to escape (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"firstP\">\n<p>A Madagascar police minister survived the crash of the helicopter he was flying in and then swam for 12 hours to reach the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Serge Gelle survived miraculously unharmed after a plane crashed into the northeast of the island nation on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He and a police colleague had arrived in the coastal town of Mahambo on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gelle was spotted in the water by fishermen in a small boat who helped her get ashore, officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>The other passenger, Officer Jimmy Laitsara, swam himself ashore.<\/p>\n<p>Gelle, 57, appeared in several videos on social media as he lay on the beach exhausted from his camouflaged uniform.  His hands were pale and wrinkled from the water and cold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not yet time for me to die,&#8221; the general said, adding that he felt cold but was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m not sad because I know my friends are alive.  There were four of us in the helicopter.  &#8220;I was sitting behind the pilot,&#8221; he said of the crash on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not have a life jacket, I removed the seat belt and used it as a commode.  I stayed calm and removed everything heavy that I had like boots or waist belt, I did everything to stay alive. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The two survivors had managed to get out of their helicopter seats, said port authority head Jean-Edmond Randrianantenaina.<\/p>\n<p>The search for the other two passengers on board is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known what caused the crash of the aircraft, which was sending the police chief to inspire the scene of the overturning of a ship.<\/p>\n<p>Gelle was going to visit the disaster on the northeast coast which is already learned to have claimed the lives of 64 people.<\/p>\n<p>The cargo ship France sank on Monday while transporting 138 people illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Local police chief Zafisambatra Ravoavy praised the police general&#8217;s determination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has always been resistant to sports and still continues to be in shape as a thirty-year-old.  &#8220;It has nerves of steel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gelle became a minister as part of a government rotation in August after serving for three decades in the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>top channel<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\tvar ajaxurl = \"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\";<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Google Analytics\n\t\twindow.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n\t\tfunction gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n\t\tgtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>\t\tgtag('config', 'UA-7855069-1');<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Facebook\n\t\twindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n\t\t\tFB.init({\n\t\t\t\tappId      : '1715618661991455',\n\t\t\t\txfbml      : true,\n\t\t\t\tversion    : 'v2.10'\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\tFB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n\t\t};<\/p>\n<p>\t\t(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t   <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/2021\/12\/22\/gjenerali-57-vjecar-i-mbijeton-rrezimit-te-helikopterit-me-pas-noton-per-12-ore-per-te-shpetuar-fotot\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A Madagascar police minister survived the crash of the helicopter he was flying in and then swam for 12 hours to reach the ground. 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