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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes ...
Jan 5, 2024 · The real crash in Society of the Snow actually took place at the so-called " Valle de las Lágrimas " – a.k.a. The Valley of Tears. Despite the plane's original final destination of Santiago in Chile, the Valley of Tears is actually in a remote part of Argentina's Mendoza province in the Andes. At the time, the valley and its glacier were ...
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Jan 10, 2024 · Interview Highlights. Juan Antonio Bayona: So the first thing I did was to go to the Valley of the Tears, in the Argentinian side of the Andes where the plane crashed. And I was there at the same ...
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Jun 15, 2019 · The last eight survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force plane crash in the Andes in South America, huddle together in the craft's fuselage on their final night before rescue on Dec. 22, 1972.
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Apr 3, 2016 · BOOK TALK. He survived the 1972 Andes plane crash. Now, he lives to help others. A rugby team from Uruguay faced stark choices when the plane carrying them to a match in Chile crashed in the ...