He used a stick from his pack to carve steps in the wall. 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." We were absolutely angry. A few seconds later, Daniel Shaw and Carlos Valeta fell out of the rear fuselage. They were running out of food, so Vizintn agreed to return to the crash site leaving his remaining portions to the other two. Four members of the search and rescue team volunteered to stay with the seven survivors remaining on the mountain. The steep terrain only permitted the pilot to touch down with a single skid. Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 was flying members of a college rugby team and their relatives from Uruguay's capital Montevideo to Santiago, Chile, for a rugby game. They were treated for a variety of conditions, including altitude sickness, dehydration, frostbite, broken bones, scurvy, and malnutrition. He wore four pairs of socks wrapped in a plastic shopping bag. After some debate the next morning, they decided that it would be wiser to return to the tail, remove the aircraft's batteries, and take them back to the fuselage so they might power up the radio and make an SOS call to Santiago for help.[17]. After numerous days spent searching for survivors, the rescue team was forced to end the search. Three crew members and nine passengers died immediately; several more died soon afterward due to the frigid temperatures and the severity of their injuries. [17], On 12 December 1972, Parrado, Canessa, and Vizintn, lacking mountaineering gear of any kind, began to climb the glacier at 3,570 metres (11,710ft) to the 4,670 metres (15,320ft) peak blocking their way west. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, Out of the Silence: After the Crash. "Discipline, teamwork, endurance. [44][45] Family members of victims of the flight founded Fundacin Viven in 2006 to preserve the legacy of the flight, memory of the victims, and support organ donation. The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, was only four years old. A federal judge and the local mayor intervened to obtain his release, and Echavarren later obtained legal permission to bury his son.[2]. Eduardo Strauch later mentioned in his book Out of the Silence that the bottom half of the fuselage, which was covered in snow and untouched by the fire, was still there during his first visit in 1995. STRAUCH: Yeah. Then, he followed the river to its junction with Ro Tinguiririca, where after crossing a bridge, he was able to reach the narrow route that linked the village of Puente Negro to the holiday resort of Termas del Flaco. During the following 72 days, the survivors suffered extreme hardships, including exposure, starvation, and an avalanche, which led to the deaths of thirteen more passengers. The Uruguayan air force plane that carried the team crashed in a mountain pass in October 1972 en route from Montevideo to Santiago. [4] He heard the news that the search was cancelled on their 11th day on the mountain. After more than two unthinkably. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive. Flight 571 Plane Crash Survivors Made Gruesome Cannibal Pact News Au Australia S Leading Site. "Yes, totally natural. Parrado was determined to hike out or die trying. [17] Since the plane crash, Canessa had lost almost half of his body weight, about 44 kilograms (97lb). [8] The aircraft was regarded by some pilots as underpowered, and had been nicknamed by them as the "lead-sled".[9][10]. [29] They thought they would reach the peak in one day. His mother had taught him to sew when he was a boy, and with the needles and thread from the sewing kit found in his mother's cosmetic case, he began to work to speed the progress, Carlitos taught others to sew, and we all took our turns Coche [Inciarte], Gustavo [Zerbino], and Fito [Strauch] turned out to be our best and fastest tailors. The aircraft carried 40 passengers and five crew members. The weather on 13 October also affected the flight. Contact would have killed them all, but by a miracle they missed the obstacles and more than half of those onboard "barely had a scratch on them". He had prearranged with the priest who had buried his son to mark the bag containing his son's remains. Canessa agreed to go west. It was published by Crown . As a result, they brought only a three-day supply of meat. By complete luck, the plane's wingless descent down into the snowbowl had found the only narrow chute without giant rocks and boulders. Parrado finally persuaded Canessa to set out, and joined by Vizintn, the three men took to the mountain on 12 December. By anyone, in fact, whose business it is to prepare men for adversity. How so? EFL: Boro, Birmingham, Rotherham lead LIVE! They had no technical gear, no map or compass, and no climbing experience. We had long since run out of the meagre pickings we'd found on the plane, and there was no vegetation or animal life to be found. Parrado, now in his sixties, was only 21 when his life changed. They dried the meat in the sun, which made it more palatable. On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 went down in the Andes along the Argentine-Chilean border. [2] Close to the grave, they built a simple stone altar and staked an orange iron cross on it. The passengers decided that a few members would seek help. The controller in Santiago, unaware the flight was still over the Andes, authorized him to descend to 11,500 feet (3,500m) (FL115). GARCIA-NAVARRO: Eduardo, the group of survivors quickly formed a community, sharing tasks, rotating sleeping positions so everyone would get a chance at a more comfortable spot in the wrecked plane. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Cataln talked with the other two men, and one of them remembered that several weeks before Carlos Pez's father had asked them if they had heard about the Andes plane crash. Survivors of a plane crash were forced to eat their dead friends in a harrowing story that sounds too unbelievable to be true. Pilot Ferradas had flown across the Andes 29 times previously. 'Alive' should be read by sociologists, educators, the Joint Chief of Staff. They became sicker from eating these. News. Estamos dbiles. Had we turned into brute savages? Upon his return to the abandoned Hotel Termas with his son's remains, he was arrested for grave robbing. Catalan, who rode to the nearest town to alert rescuers, returned to meet the survivors on Saturday in a hat and poncho. En el avin quedan 14 personas heridas. Fell from aircraft, missing: The survivors' courage under extremely adverse conditions has been described as "a beacon of hope to [their] generation, showing what can be accomplished with persistence and determination in the presence of unsurpassable odds, and set our minds to attain a common aim". It doesn't taste anything. "Since then I have enjoyed fully, carefully but without fear. Another survivor Daniel Fernandez, 66, held the trophy that would have been the reward for the game to be played the day of the crash. In the documentary film Stranded, Canessa described how on the first night during the ascent, they had difficulty finding a place to put down the sleeping bag. Copyright 2019 NPR. The ordeal "taught me that we set our own limits", he said. They improvised in other ways. To try to keep out some of the cold, they used luggage, seats, and snow to close off the open end of the fuselage. The remaining survivors of an Uruguayan rugby team were rescued when their plane crashed into the Andes after months of waiting. They hoped that the valley they were in would make a U-turn and allow them to start walking west to Chile. With Hugo Stiglitz, Norma Lazareno, Luz Mara Aguilar, Fernando Larraaga. It had its wings ripped off on impact, leading to the immediate death of 12 passengers and crew. He believes that rugby saved their lives. The arrieros could not imagine that anyone could still be alive. On 26 December, two pictures taken by members of Cuerpo de Socorro Andino (Andean Relief Corps) of a half-eaten human leg were printed on the front page of two Chilean newspapers, El Mercurio and La Tercera de la Hora,[2] who reported that all survivors resorted to cannibalism. [5][14], The plane fuselage came to rest on a glacier at 344554S 701711W / 34.76500S 70.28639W / -34.76500; -70.28639 at an elevation of 3,570 metres (11,710ft) in the Malarge Department, Mendoza Province. Valeta survived his fall, but stumbled down the snow-covered glacier, fell into deep snow, and was asphyxiated. However, given the circumstances, including that the bodies were in Argentina, the Chilean rescuers left the bodies at the site until authorities could make the necessary decisions. The pilots were astounded at the difficult terrain the two men had crossed to reach help. I get used to. He mistakenly believed the aircraft had reached Curic, where the flight would turn to descend into Pudahuel Airport. On 23 December 1972, two months after the crash, the last of the 16 survivors were rescued. Nando Parrado woke from his coma after three days to learn that his mother had died and that his 19-year-old sister Susana Parrado was severely injured. None of the passengers with compound fractures survived. While some reports state the pilot incorrectly estimated his position using dead reckoning, the pilot was relying on radio navigation. He has made them human. Accuracy and availability may vary. One of the team members, Roy Harley, was an amateur electronics enthusiast, and they recruited his help in the endeavour. People who are lost in alcohol and drugs - the same. View history 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. At Planchn Pass, the aircraft still had to travel 6070km (3743mi) to reach Curic. Seventeen more would perish from their injuries and an avalanche, according to reports. At this time of year, we could expect daytime temperatures well above freezing, but the nights were still cold enough to kill us, and we knew now that we couldn't expect to find shelter on the open slopes. "I came back to life after having died," said Parrado, whose mother and sister died in the Andes. He gained the summit of the 4,650 metres (15,260ft) high peak before Vizintn. Numa Turcatti and Antonio Vizintin were chosen to accompany Canessa and Parrado; however, Turcatti's leg was stepped on and the bruise had become septic, so he was unable to join the expedition. 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. Eduardo Strauch survived the 1972 Andes plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. By chance, it hit the downward slope on the other side at the exact angle that allowed it to become a tube-like sledge, hurtling down into a bowl before hitting a snowdrift and coming to rest. After numerous days spent searching for survivors, the rescue team was forced to end the search. When Canessa reached the top and saw nothing but snow-capped mountains for kilometres around them, his first thought was, "We're dead. F1 qualifying: Leclerc leads Verstappen, Mercedes into epic pole shootout LIVE! Due to the altitude and weight limits, the two helicopters were able to take only half of the survivors. 'Hey boys,' he shouted, 'there's some good news! The back half sheared off at cruising speed sending those at the rear of the plane tumbling to their deaths, and the front portion of the fuselage, minus any wings, shooting forwards like a torpedo over the ridge. He refused to give up hope. [32][26], When the news broke out that people had survived the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, the story of the passengers' survival after 72 days drew international attention. It was really amazing just to manage my mind, my thoughts. But the hard part was not over for Eduardo Strauch. Potter's 600m problem, The amazing survival story of a Uruguayan rugby team in 1972. On the second day, Canessa thought he saw a road to the east, and tried to persuade Parrado to head in that direction. harrowing tale of survivors of an airplane crash. Eventually spotted by a peasant farmer in the Chilean foothills they reached help and returned via helicopter to rescue the rest of those waiting to die in the mountains. They flew in heavy cloud cover under instrument conditions to Los Maitenes de Curic where the army interviewed Parrado and Canessa. Twenty-nine guys, we donated our bodies, hand in hand we made a pact. [18] All had lived near the sea; some of the team members had never seen snow before, and none had experience at high altitude. Fito Strauch devised a way to obtain water in freezing conditions by using sheet metal from under the seats and placing snow on it. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, Massive wildfires torch Chile, leaving 23 dead, hundreds injured, NYC lawyer, 38, who devoted his life to public service shot dead while vacationing in Chile, Scientists unearth megaraptors, feathered dinosaur fossils in Chile, Chile fires hit port and coastal city, two dead. Parrado and Canessa hiked for several more days. [27][28] seeking help. Both of Arturo Nogueira's legs were broken in several places. We are weak. Im condemned to tell this story for evermore, just like the Beatles always having to sing Yesterday. Witness accounts and evidence at the scene indicated the plane struck the mountain either two or three times. We have a very small space. 'Alive' is thunderous entertainment: I know the events by rote, nonetheless I found it electric. Eduardo Strauch survived the 1972 Andes plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. "I think the greatest sadness I felt in my life was when I had to eat a dead body," said Roberto Canessa, 59, who was a medical student at the time of the crash. The avalanche completely buried the fuselage and filled the interior to within 1 metre (3ft 3in) of the roof. As the weather improved with the arrival of late spring, two survivors, Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, climbed a 4,650-metre (15,260ft) mountain peak without gear and hiked for 10 days into Chile to seek help, traveling 61 km (38 miles). [38] The news of their survival and the actions required to live drew world-wide attention and grew into a media circus. For a long time, we agonized. [17][26], They relayed news of the survivors to the Army command in San Fernando, Chile, who contacted the Army in Santiago. In a sense, our friends were some of the first organ donors in the world they helped to nourish us and kept us alive., The group made their decision after consuming the food they had on the plane, which included eight chocolate bars, a tin of mussels, three small jars of jam, some almonds and dates and several bottles of wine. The surviving members of a Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days and forcing them to eat human flesh to stay alive. I tried to enjoy my friend, my dog, my passions, a second at a time," said Parrado, who has since worked as a TV host, race car driver and motivational speaker. [17], Knowing that rescue efforts had been called off and faced with starvation and death, those still alive agreed that, should they die, the others might consume their bodies to live. The courage of this one boy prevented a flood of total despair. He then rode on horseback westward for 10 hours to bring help. Hace 10 das que estamos caminando. "The conditions were more horrifying than you can ever imagine. Dnde estamos?English: I come from a plane that fell in the mountains. Soy uruguayo. Parrado called them, but the noise of the river made it impossible to communicate. Photograph: Luis Andres Henao/AP. At sunset, while sipping cognac that they had found in the tail section, Parrado said, "Roberto, can you imagine how beautiful this would be if we were not dead men? On the return trip, they were struck by a blizzard. Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, also called Miracle of the Andes or Spanish El Milagro de los Andes, 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. Carlos Pez, 58, waved a small red shoe at a helicopter carrying Parrado, as he did when the Chilean air force rescued him and the others. They hoped to get to Chile to the west, but a large mountain lay west of the crash site, persuading them to try heading east first. And at the beginning, when I realized it was what I was going to do, my mind and my conscience was OK. They were abandoned, and in their minds condemned to die. On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. The front portion of the fuselage flew straight through the air before sliding down the steep glacier at 350km/h (220mph) like a high-speed toboggan and descended about 725 metres (2,379ft). At times I was tempted to fictionalize certain parts of the story because this might have added to their dramatic impact but in the end I decided that the bare facts were sufficient to sustain the narrativewhen I returned in October 1973 to show them the manuscript of this book, some of them were disappointed by my presentation of their story. The author interviewed many of the survivors as well as the family members of the passengers before writing this book to obtain facts about the crash. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism. A half century after their plane crashed into the Andes, the survivors who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive came together this week in Uruguay to remember their grisly ordeal. [15][16], At least four died from the impact of the fuselage hitting the snow bank, which ripped the remaining seats from their anchors and hurled them to the front of the plane: team physician Dr. Francisco Nicola and his wife Esther Nicola; Eugenia Parrado and Fernando Vazquez (medical student). Although there is a direct route from Mendoza to Santiago 200 kilometres (120mi) to the west, the high mountains require an altitude of 25,000 to 26,000 feet (7,600 to 7,900m), very close to the FH-227D's maximum operational ceiling of 28,000 feet (8,500m). England take on Uruguay in their final Rugby World Cup match this evening. Colonel Julio Csar Ferradas was an experienced Air Force pilot who had a total of 5,117 flying hours. Instead, it was customary for this type of aircraft to fly a longer 600-kilometre (370mi), 90-minute U-shaped route[2] from Mendoza south to Malarge using the A7 airway (known today as UW44). Lagurara radioed the Malarge airport with their position and told them they would reach 2,515 metres (8,251ft) high Planchn Pass at 3:21p.m. Planchn Pass is the air traffic control hand-off point from one side of the Andes to the other, with controllers in Mendoza transferring flight tracking duties over to Pudahuel air traffic control in Santiago, Chile. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Strauch finally decided to tell his story publicly after a mountaineer discovered his jacket and wallet at the crash site years later and returned it to him. They also realized that unless they found a way to survive the freezing temperature of the nights, a trek was impossible. We helped many, many cases, and it's really amazing that so much suffering, 47 years later, became something so positive for me and for so many people. Survivor Roberto Canessa described the decision to eat the pilots and their dead friends and family members: Our common goal was to survive but what we lacked was food. They had hiked about 38km (24mi) over 10 days. [3][2], The aircraft continued forward and upward another 200 meters (660ft) for a few more seconds when the left wing struck an outcropping at 4,400 meters (14,400ft), tearing off the wing. We have to melt snow. We needed a way to survive the long nights without freezing, and the quilted batts of insulation we'd taken from the tail section gave us our solution as we brainstormed about the trip, we realized we could sew the patches together to create a large warm quilt. The second flight of helicopters arrived the following morning at daybreak. "[12] The aircraft ground collision alarm sounded, alarming all of the passengers. Sun 14 Oct 2012 09.29 EDT The surviving members of a Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days. It filled the fuselage and killed eight people: Enrique Platero, Liliana Methol, Gustavo Nicolich, Daniel Maspons, Juan Menendez, Diego Storm, Carlos Roque, and Marcelo Perez. Of the 45 passengers aboard, 16 survived by feeding on dead family members and friends preserved in the snow. They removed the seat covers, which were partially made of wool, to use against the cold. The passengers removed the broken seats and other debris from the aircraft and fashioned a crude shelter. [17] On 21 October, after searching a total of 142 hours and 30 minutes, the searchers concluded that there was no hope and terminated the search. Many of the passengers had compound fractures or had been impaled by pieces . [26], On the third morning of the trek, Canessa stayed at their camp. They felt that the faith and friendship which inspired them in the cordillera do not emerge from these pages. In his memoir, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (2006), Nando Parrado wrote about this decision: At high altitude, the body's caloric needs are astronomical we were starving in earnest, with no hope of finding food, but our hunger soon grew so voracious that we searched anyway again and again, we scoured the fuselage in search of crumbs and morsels. 13 bodies were untouched, while another 15 were mostly skeletal. [2] He asked one of the passengers to find his pistol and shoot him, but the passenger declined. Family members were not allowed to attend. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. It is south of the 4,650 metres (15,260ft) high Mount Seler, the mountain they later climbed and which Nando Parrado named after his father. [22][23], Seventeen days after the crash, near midnight on 29 October, an avalanche struck the aircraft containing the survivors as they slept. The film explores the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. In bad weather their plane clipped the top of a mountain in Argentina. In 2007, Chilean arriero Sergio Cataln was interviewed on Chilean television during which he revealed that he had leg (hip) arthrosis. Parrado disagreed and they argued without reaching a decision. "Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, and in South America as Miracle in the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes) was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team, their friends, family and associates that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. One of the propellers sliced through the fuselage as the wing it was attached to was severed. But they did. Others justified it according to a Bible verse found in John 15:13: 'No man hath greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. And important. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. STRAUCH: Even now, 47 years later, people - when they connect with our story, they get so many positive things for their lives. Parrado was sure this was their way out of the mountains. After the initial shock of their plane crashing into the Andes mountains on that fateful Friday the 13th of October 1972, Harley and 31 other survivors found themselves in the pitch dark in minus . NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. As you can imagine, it has been the most awful, terrible days of my life. Today, we're here to win a game," crash survivor Pedro Algorta, 61, said as he prepared to walk on to the playing field surrounded by the cordillera the jagged mountains that trapped the group. Parrado was lucky. As Parrado showed us at his London presentation, a team of leading US mountaineers recreated the pair's climb out of the mountains, fully kitted out and fed, in 2006. [1], The book was a critical success. During the days following the crash, they divided this into small amounts to make their meager supply last as long as possible. Survivor, and rugby team member Nando Parrado has written a beautiful story of friendship, tragedy and perseverance. We ripped open seat cushions hoping to find straw, but found only inedible upholstery foam Again and again, I came to the same conclusion: unless we wanted to eat the clothes we were wearing, there was nothing here but aluminum, plastic, ice, and rock. Vizintn and Parrado rejoined Canessa where they had slept the night before. Director Ren Cardona Writers Charles Blair Jr. (book) Ren Cardona Jr. Stars Pablo Ferrel Hugo Stiglitz A storm blew fiercely, and they finally found a spot on a ledge of rock on the edge of an abyss. Please, we cannot even walk. All rights reserved. They were initially so revolted by the experience that they could eat only skin, muscle and fat. [4], The last remaining survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash. [15], Before the avalanche, a few of the survivors became insistent that their only way of survival would be to climb over the mountains and search for help. [26], Parrado and Canessa took three hours to climb to the summit. Vierci, Paulo. Search efforts were cancelled after eight days. 'Alive': Uruguay plane crash survivors savour life 50 years on On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying an amateur Uruguayan rugby team, along with relatives and supporters, to an away match in Chile crashed in the Andes with 45 people on board. After ten days the group of survivors heard on a radio that the search for them had been called off. And all that with only human flesh to sustain them. Over the years, survivors have published books, been portrayed in films and television productions, and produced an official website about the event. But it was impossible to get the proteins from there, so we start a mental process to convince our minds that was the only way. Without His consent, I felt I would be violating the memory of my friends; that I would be stealing their souls. "Out Of The Silence: After The Crash" is a story of endurance and the spiritual awakening that came after 72 days trapped in the Andes. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Eduardo Strauch's book, written with Uruguayan author Mireya Soriano, is called "Out Of The Silence.". The team's. The Old Christians squared off on Saturday in Santiago against the Old Grangonian, the former Chilean rugby team they were supposed to play back in 1972 when their flight went down. Inside and nearby, they found luggage containing a box of chocolates, three meat patties, a bottle of rum, cigarettes, extra clothes, comic books, and a little medicine. Piers Paul Read's book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors described the moments after this discovery: The others who had clustered around Roy, upon hearing the news, began to sob and pray, all except [Nando] Parrado, who looked calmly up at the mountains which rose to the west. Among those survivors was a young architect named Eduardo Strauch, who held off writing about the tragedy until now. Members of the amateur Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, were scheduled to play a match against the Old Boys Club, an English rugby team in Santiago, Chile. Onboard was an Uruguayan rugby team, along with friends and relatives. They were actually more than 89km (55mi) to the east, deep in the Andes. And when they crossed with our story, it changed their thoughts. And that first night was really impossible to describe. Nando Parrado says they survivors 'donated their bodies' and made a pact. Instead, I lasted 72 days. [26], Parrado wore three pairs of jeans and three sweaters over a polo shirt. "[29] They followed the ridge towards the valley and descended a considerable distance. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. The Chilean military photographed the bodies and mapped the area. Members of a college rugby team and their relatives on Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 were travelling from Uruguay's capital Montevideo to Santiago, Chile, for a rugby game. [31], Sergio Cataln, a Chilean arriero (muleteer), read the note and gave them a sign that he understood. 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. Where are we? He still remembers the impact, before blacking out and only regaining consciousness four days later. But we got used to it. All 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash have reunited for the 50th anniversary, according to a report. We were 29 people at the first. 2022-10-13 21:00:26 - Paris/France. The group decided to camp that night inside the tail section. 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.. The white plane was invisible in the snowy blanket of the mountain. In 1972, a plane carrying young men from a Uruguayan rugby team, crashed high in the Andes. "[11], Roberto Canessa later said that he thought the pilot turned north too soon, and began the descent to Santiago while the aircraft was still high in the Andes. Uruguayan Flight 571 was set to take a team of amateur rugby players and. Thinking of the suffering that must have caused our families at home made us even more determined to survive, said Sabella.
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