Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, flight of an airplane charted by a Uruguayan amateur rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains in Argentina on , the wreckage of which was not located for more than two months. Of the 45 people aboard the plane, only 16 survived the ordeal.
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In 1972, a plane carrying 45 rugby team members crashed in the remote Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But what these 16 survivors endured was far worse than...
In 1972, a plane crashed into the Andes and the survivors resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. This is the story of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was chartered to take an amateur rugby team from Montevideo to Santiago, Chile, and ended up in tragedy (and miracle).
The Andes Flight Disaster: A Plane Carrying 45 People Crashed and the ...
On , a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and their companions crashed into the unforgiving Andes Mountains. Of the 45 on board, 12 died instantly, leaving 33 survivors stranded at 11,700 feet in brutal cold.
Andes Plane Crash Survival Story — How They Survived 72 Days in the ...
On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes Mountains. Forty-five people were on board when the plane went down, but by the time they were rescued more than two months later, only 16 were still alive.