Out of Captivity : Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

This picture of our California Microwave group was taken a few weeks before ourplane went down, while Marc was on his home shift. Tom is in the top row, secondfrom the left, and Keith is in the top row, fifth from the left. Tommy Janis, the heroof our f light who skillfully brought us to the ground in one piece, is in the top rowwearing the yellow shirt. Also pictured here are Ralph Ponticelli (third from the leftin the green hat) and Tommy Schmidt (first row, third from the left), two terrificcoworkers who died when their plane crashed while searching for us.The Colombian countryside terrain ranges from lowland plains to mountainousjungles. While it was bad that our plane went down in the mountains, we were luckythat we weren’t near the country’s highest peaks. As hard as our initial twenty-fourdaymarch was, it would have been impossible had we been dealing with highermountain passes.