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The flight was carrying 45 passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team, along with their families, supporters and friends. Three crew members and nine passengers died immediately and several more died soon after due to the frigid temperatures and the severity of their injuries.
- Roberto Canessa
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- Nando Parrado
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- Miracle in The Andes: 72 Days on The Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Miracle in the Andes (in Spanish "Milagro en los Andes") is...
- Alive: 20 Years Later
The documentary focused on the lives (20 years later) of the...
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- Roberto Canessa
Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972.
- Piers Paul Read
- Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors
- 1974
- 1974
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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 October 13, 1972, the wreckage of which was not located for more than two months. Of the 45 people aboard the plane, only 16 survived the ordeal.
Oct 12, 2021 · On October 13, 1972, a chartered twin engine plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crash landed high in the Andes mountains. How they survived has inspired both admiration and horror. As...
Jan 5, 2024 · On Oct. 12, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 took off from Montevideo, Uruguay, with 45 people (40 passengers and five crew members) on board. The plane had been chartered by the Old...
May 22, 2023 · On Oct. 12, 1972, the flight was supposed to take the amateur Old Christians Club rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, for an exhibition match against the Old Boys Club, an English rugby team in Santiago. MORE: Video Survivors of famed 1972 Uruguay plane crash recount harrowing fight to survive.
