Though the physical resilience of these four young children will have been a factor in their survival, as a paediatrician with more than 30 years' experience, I believe what saved them was their psychological state and youthful naivety.Unlike most adults, children tend to live in the moment. So these youngsters would have had little foresight to envision the dangers.They would not have been burdened with terror that could drive the natural instincts of adults to take 'flight' and cloud people's abilities to make sensible decisions. I suspect the children took a pragmatic approach, concentrating on finding food and water. Having lost their mother in the crash, they would have felt bereft. But, crucially, without experiencing the same complexity of grief as an adult, they wouldn't have been incapacitated by sorrow.
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