SAO PAULO: Nine of the 11 people on board a plane that went missing over the Amazon survived when it made an emergency river landing in a remote part of the rainforest, says the Brazilian Air Force.

Members of the Matis Indian tribe found the plane and the survivors in a jungle reservation.

One civilian and an Air Force warrant officer have been missing since the single-prop Cessna Caravan went down on Friday, and a team of divers is looking for them.

Military helicopters picked up the survivors yesterday afternoon near several Indian villages close to the Peruvian border. They were being flown to a hospital for evaluation. None had life-threatening injuries and all were expected to be treated and released.

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