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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.
Old Christians Club, or simply Old Christians, is a Uruguayan sports club from the Carrasco neighbourhood of Montevideo. The club is known mostly for its rugby union team that became famous around the world due to the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash that involved the first division team
Miracle in the Andes (in Spanish "Milagro en los Andes") is a 2006 non-fiction account of a rugby team's survival on a glacier in the Andes for 72 days by survivor Nando Parrado and co-author Vince Rause.
Jan 11, 2024 · The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was carrying an Uruguayan rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into the...
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...
Jun 9, 2019 · On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 went down in the Andes along the Argentine-Chilean border. Onboard was an Uruguayan rugby team, along with friends and relatives. Twenty-nine people initially survived that crash, and their story of struggle in the mountains became the subject of books and movies, most famously "Alive."
On 13 October, 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into a mountain in the Andes, during a flight to Santiago, carrying 45 passengers and crew. Among those on the plane were 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team, who were travelling to Chile to play a match against the Old Grangonian Club.
