Tag: 72 Days in the Andes
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On This Day In 1972: Andes Plane Crash Kills 29 People and Leaving 16 Survivors Fighting Starvation, Freezing Temperatures and an Avalanche for 72 Days, Forcing Them to Make an Unthinkable Decision to Stay Alive
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the remote Andes Mountains while carrying 45 people, including members of the Old Christians rugby team, their relatives and friends, from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile. What followed became one of aviation history’s most extraordinary survival stories. The aircraft, a Fairchild FH-227D, had stopped…
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