document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Survivors of a plane crash were forced to eat their dead friends in a harrowing story that sounds too unbelievable to be true. The courage of this one boy prevented a flood of total despair. "With that, our suffering ended," Canessa said. [2] His body was found by fellow passengers on 14 December. I gagged hard when I placed it in my mouth. Members of the "Old Christians" rugby team stand near the fuselage of their Uruguayan Air Force F-227 plane two months after it crashed while ferrying them to a match in Chile. We were 29 people at the first. After just a few days, we were feeling the sensation of our own bodies consuming themselves just to remain alive. STRAUCH: Absolutely devastating - so we felt abandoned, and we felt so angry with everybody, with - even with our families, with the world, with God, with nature, with everything. 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. Fairly early on, you say that hearing your cousin Adolfo say out loud what many were thinking - that you were going to have to eat the bodies - gave you a kind of relief. The rescuers believed that no one could have survived the crash. [19], The survivors had very little food: eight chocolate bars, a tin of mussels, three small jars of jam, a tin of almonds, a few dates, candies, dried plums, and several bottles of wine. From there, aircraft flew west via the G-17 (UB684) airway, crossing Planchn to the Curic radiobeacon in Chile, and from there north to Santiago.[3][4]. [18] All had lived near the sea; some of the team members had never seen snow before, and none had experience at high altitude. They dug a grave about .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}400 to 800m (14 to 12mi) from the aircraft fuselage at a site they thought was safe from avalanches. The second flight of helicopters arrived the following morning at daybreak. [26], It was now apparent that the only way out was to climb over the mountains to the west. He has made them human. "It's something that very few people experience." [15] They saw three aircraft fly overhead, but were unable to attract their attention, and none of the aircraft crews spotted the white fuselage against the snow. 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. [26], Parrado and Canessa took three hours to climb to the summit. ", Uruguayan rugby team, who were forced to eat human flesh to stay alive after plane went down, play match postponed in 1972, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Former members of the Old Christians rugby team hold a minute's silence after unveiling a plaque in memory of those who died. 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. For a long time, we agonized. This decision was not taken lightly, as most of the dead were classmates, close friends, or relatives. Parrado ate a single chocolate-covered peanut over three days. I am Uruguayan. Hace 10 das que estamos caminando. He compared their actions to that of Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, during which he gave his disciples the Eucharist. Later on, several others did the same. 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. With Hugo Stiglitz, Norma Lazareno, Luz Mara Aguilar, Fernando Larraaga. Instead of climbing the ridge to the west which was somewhat lower than the peak, they climbed straight up the steep mountain. With no other choice, on the third day they began to eat the raw flesh of their newly dead friends. They now used their training to help the injured passengers. On 23 December 1972, two months after the crash, the last of the 16 survivors were rescued. Condemned to die without any hope we transported the rugby feeling to the cold fuselage at 12,000ft.". The pilots were astounded at the difficult terrain the two men had crossed to reach help. On Friday, October 13, in 1972, charter flight 571 took off from Montevideo, Uruguay's capital city, carrying a boisterous team of wealthy college athletes to a rugby match in Chile. Unknown to the people on board, or the rescuers, the flight had crashed about 21km (13mi) from the former Hotel Termas el Sosneado, an abandoned resort and hot springs that might have provided limited shelter.[2]. They improvised in other ways. At Canessa's urging, they waited nearly seven days to allow for higher temperatures. 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. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. When the supply of flesh was diminished, they also ate hearts, lungs and even brains. Parrado now sees those who died and gave up their bodies for food as the very first "consent donors", like modern organ donors enabling others to live. [7][3] The aircraft, FAU 571, was four years old and had 792 airframe hours. This edition also has a new subtitle: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds: The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes. He also described the book as an important one: Cowardice, selfishness, whatever: their essential heroism can weather Read's objectivity. They dried the meat in the sun, which made it more palatable. An Uruguayan air force plane carrying a private college rugby team crashed in a rugged mountain pass while en route from Montevideo to Santiago, Chile, in October 1972. We have just some chocolates and biscuits for 29 people, so we start getting very weak immediately. On 15 November, after several hours of walking east, the trio found the largely intact tail section of the aircraft containing the galley about 1.6km (1mi) east and downhill of the fuselage. Last photo of . 'Why the hell is that good news?' Before long, we would become too weak to recover from starvation. The 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 October 13, 1972. They removed the seat covers, which were partially made of wool, to use against the cold. [5][6] Once across the mountains in Chile, south of Curic, the aircraft was supposed to turn north and initiate a descent into Pudahuel Airport in Santiago. He said the experience scarred him but gave him a new-found appreciation for life. [12][37] The survivors received public backlash initially, but after they explained the pact the survivors had made to sacrifice their flesh if they died to help the others survive, the outcry diminished and the families were more understanding. The story of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was chartered to take an amateur rugby team from Montevideo to Santiago, Chile, in 1972 was immortalized in the best-selling book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read. In 1972, a charter jet carrying a Uruguayan rugby team across the Andes mountains crashed, eventually killing 29 of the 45 people on board. Four planes searched that afternoon until dark. Photograph: Luis Andres Henao/AP. [3], Of the 45 people on the aircraft, three passengers and two crew members in the tail section were killed when it broke apart: Lt. Ramn Sal Martnez, Orvido Ramrez (plane steward), Gaston Costemalle, Alejo Houni, and Guido Magri. But we got used to it. They placed a plaque on the pile of rocks inscribed:[39], EL MUNDO A SUS HERMANOS URUGUAYOSCERCA, OH DIOS DE TI NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, Out of the Silence: After. Can you talk a little bit about that? F1 qualifying: Leclerc leads Verstappen, Mercedes into epic pole shootout LIVE! [English: The world to its Uruguayan brothersClose, oh God, to you], They doused the remains of the fuselage in gasoline and set it alight. When are you going to come to fetch us? The conditions were such that the pair could not reach him, but from afar they heard him say one word: "Tomorrow". We are weak. ', In the end, all of those who had survived as of the decision to eat the bodies did so, though not all without reservations. "[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. The news of their miraculous survival drew world-wide headlines that grew into a media circus. The weather on 13 October also affected the flight. Javier Methol and his wife Liliana, the only surviving female passenger, were the last survivors to eat human flesh. [4], Thirty-three remained alive, although many were seriously or critically injured, with wounds including broken legs which had resulted from the aircraft's seats collapsing forward against the luggage partition and the pilot's cabin. [16] The remaining 27 faced severe difficulties surviving the nights when temperatures dropped to 30C (22F). [4], The pilot applied maximum power in an attempt to gain altitude. Jorge Zerbino, nephew of one of the survivors, is in the Uruguay squad. They also built a cross in the snow using luggage, but it was unseen by the search and rescue aircraft. 'Because it means,' [Nicolich] said, 'that we're going to get out of here on our own.' The film explores the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. [47], In March 2006, the families of those aboard the flight had a black obelisk monument built at the crash site memorializing those who lived and died.[48]. During the anniversary ceremony military jets flew over the field, dropping parachutists draped in Chilean and Uruguayan flags. 'Hey boys,' he shouted, 'there's some good news! The news of the missing flight reached Uruguayan media about 6:00p.m. that evening. Estamos dbiles. La sociedad de la nieve, 2nd ed. Cataln threw bread to the men across the river. This was possible because the bodies had been preserved with the freezing temperatures and the snow. It was hard to put in your mouth, recalled Sabella, a successful businessman. [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. I have a wounded friend up there. He scribbled a note, attached it and a pencil to a rock with some string, and threw the message across the river. [33] A flood of international reporters began walking several kilometers along the route from Puente Negro to Termas del Flaco. We have been through so much. They believed that had they known before they left the stricken plane the near impossibility of the journey ahead, they would never have left. Their story became the basis of a best-selling book and Hollywood film. The Uruguayan air force plane that carried the team crashed in a mountain pass in October 1972 en route from Montevideo to Santiago. 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 . "[17] Parrado saw two smaller peaks on the western horizon that were not covered in snow. Here, he was able to stop a truck and reach the police station at Puente Negro. The white plane was invisible in the snowy blanket of the mountain. I want to live. [24][25] With considerable difficulty, on the morning of 31 October, they dug a tunnel from the cockpit to the surface, only to encounter a furious blizzard that left them no choice but to stay inside the fuselage. And at last, I was convinced that it was the only way to live. Unable to obtain official permission to retrieve his son's body, Ricardo Echavarren mounted an expedition on his own with hired guides. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in sub-zero temperatures. We have a very small space. Several survivors were determined to join the expedition team, including Roberto Canessa, one of the two medical students, but others were less willing or unsure of their ability to withstand such a physically exhausting ordeal. "If I had been told: 'I'm going to leave you in a mountain 4,000m high, 20C below zero (-4F) in shirtsleeves,' I would have said: I last 10 minutes.' Today, the 16 survivors are a close-knit group who also meet each year on December 22, the day the rescue began, for a barbecue of beef steaks and pork sausages. But at the same time, he found that he had grown spiritually during his ordeal in the mountains. When he had boarded the ill-fated Uruguay Air Force plane for Chile, Harley weighed 84 kilograms. Parrado finally persuaded Canessa to set out, and joined by Vizintn, the three men took to the mountain on 12 December. For three days, the remaining survivors were trapped in the extremely cramped space within the buried fuselage with about 1 metre (3ft 3in) headroom, together with the corpses of those who had died in the avalanche. 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. To try to keep out some of the cold, they used luggage, seats, and snow to close off the open end of the fuselage. Canessa, who had become a doctor, and other survivors raised funds to pay for a hip replacement operation. Eduardo Strauch survived the 1972 Andes plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. Some evidence indicates it was thrown back with such force that it tore off the vertical stabilizer and the tail-cone. [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). A paperback which referenced the film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes, was released in 1993. Parrado and Canessa hiked for several more days. If I die please use my body so at least one of us can get out of here and tell our families how much we love them.". 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. 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". Vierci, Paulo. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. 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. The flight time from the pass to Curic is normally 11 minutes, but only three minutes later the pilot told Santiago that they were passing Curic and turning north. They had hiked about 38km (24mi) over 10 days. And it was because it was in order to live and preserve life, which is exactly what I would have liked for myself if it had been my body that lay on the floor," he said. The tail was missingcut away from the rest of the fuselage by. [1], The book was a critical success. But this story has endured, and at the time, in the early 70s, became controversial, because of what happened next. The plane slammed into a mountainside in rough weather when the pilot veered off-course. Parrado disagreed and they argued without reaching a decision. Crashed at 3:34p.m. Onboard was an Uruguayan rugby team, along with friends and relatives. The plane, traveling from Uruguay to Chile, went down over the Andes moun-tains after on October 13, 1972. 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. The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, was only four years old. The remaining passengers resorted to cannibalism. [16], Canessa and Gustavo Zerbino, both medical students, acted quickly to assess the severity of people's wounds and treat those they could help most. Fito Strauch devised a way to obtain water in freezing conditions by using sheet metal from under the seats and placing snow on it. The arrieros could not imagine that anyone could still be alive. Had we turned into brute savages? The book was published two years after the survivors of the crash were rescued. STRAUCH: Even now, 47 years later, people - when they connect with our story, they get so many positive things for their lives. One of the men across the river saw Parrado and Canessa and shouted back, "Tomorrow!" Inside the crowded aircraft there was silence. They used the seat cushions as snow shoes. It was one of the greatest survival stories in human history, perhaps THE greatest. The harsh conditions gave searchers little hope that they would find anyone alive. It had its wings ripped off on impact, leading to the immediate death of 12 passengers and crew. Vizintn and Parrado reached the base of a near-vertical wall more than one hundred meters (300 feet) tall encased in snow and ice. The return was entirely downhill, and using an aircraft seat as a makeshift sleigh, he returned to the crash site in one hour. He had prearranged with the priest who had buried his son to mark the bag containing his son's remains. [2] Twelve men and a Chilean priest were transported to the crash site on 18 January 1973. Parrado lost more than seven stones (44kg) along the way, approaching half of his body weight. [21]:9495, Parrado protected the corpses of his sister and mother, and they were never eaten. [34], Under normal circumstances, the search and rescue team would have brought back the remains of the dead for burial. The group decided to camp that night inside the tail section. [citation needed], As the men gathered wood to build a fire, one of them saw three men on horseback at the other side of the river. Paez said he has made a career of traveling the world to lecture about his ordeal in the mountains. In those intervening months 13 more of the 29 who made that pact died on the mountain, five from their injuries and eight more in a catastrophic avalanche that buried the stricken fuselage that had become their refuge. Alongside Canessa he defied death and impossible odds, trekking and climbing "mountains higher than any in Europe", with little strength and no equipment for 10 days and 80 miles. En el avin quedan 14 personas heridas. 2022-10-13 21:00:26 - Paris/France. On the second day, Canessa thought he saw a road to the east, and tried to persuade Parrado to head in that direction. Cundo nos van a buscar arriba? Nando Parrado described in his book, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, how they came up with the idea of making a sleeping bag: The second challenge would be to protect ourselves from exposure, especially after sundown. GARCIA-NAVARRO: And so two members of the team, dressed in only street clothes, miraculously were able to make it over the mountains and find help. 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. Witness accounts and evidence at the scene indicated the plane struck the mountain either two or three times. [15] They were also spared the daily manual labor around the crash site that was essential for the group's survival, so they could build their strength. [36], The survivors held a press conference on 28 December at Stella Maris College in Montevideo, where they recounted the events of the past 72 days. They took over harvesting flesh from their deceased friends and distributing it to the others. 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. Canessa, Parrado, and Vizintn were among the strongest boys and were allocated larger rations of food and the warmest clothes. [10] The aircraft's VOR/DME instrument displayed to the pilot a digital reading of the distance to the next radio beacon in Curic. Our minds are amazing. This story has been shared 139,641 times. On the second night of the expedition, which was their first night sleeping outside, they nearly froze to death. Find the perfect 72 days stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Due to the altitude and weight limits, the two helicopters were able to take only half of the survivors. Gustavo [Coco] Nicolich came out of the aircraft and, seeing their faces, knew what they had heard [Nicolich] climbed through the hole in the wall of suitcases and rugby shirts, crouched at the mouth of the dim tunnel, and looked at the mournful faces which were turned towards him. 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. "[29] They followed the ridge towards the valley and descended a considerable distance. We are surrounded with our friends, who died. Parrado replied:[17][26], Vengo de un avin que cay en las montaas. Man Utd revive interest in Barcelona star De Jong, Alonso pips Verstappen with Hamilton fourth ahead of thrilling pole fight, Experience live F1 races onboard with any driver in 2023, Papers: Chelsea divided on future of head coach Potter, PL Predictions: Maddison to spark Leicester into life, How Casemiro silenced doubters to become Man Utd cult hero, What is Chelsea's best XI? 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. Four-wheel drive vehicles transport travelers from the village of El Sosneado to Puesto Araya, near the abandoned Hotel Termas del Sosneado. "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. They had climbed a mountain on the border of Argentina and Chile, meaning the trekkers were still tens of kilometres from the green valleys of Chile. [4], The Chilean Air Force provided three Bell UH-1 helicopters to assist with the rescue. That "one of us" was Parrado, along with his friend Roberto Canessa, who somehow found the strength to climb out of the mountains nearly two months later. And when they crossed with our story, it changed their thoughts. He had brought the pilot's flight chart and guided the helicopters up the mountain to the location of the remaining survivors. Search efforts were cancelled after eight days. It was published by Crown . To prevent snow blindness, he improvised sunglasses using the sun visors in the pilot's cabin, wire, and a bra strap. 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. The solar collector melted snow which dripped into empty wine bottles. [27][28] seeking help. One of the propellers sliced through the fuselage as the wing it was attached to was severed. Without His consent, I felt I would be violating the memory of my friends; that I would be stealing their souls. 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. Many of the passengers had compound fractures or had been impaled by pieces . Regardless, at 3:21p.m., shortly after transiting the pass, Lagurara contacted Santiago and notified air traffic controllers that he expected to reach Curic a minute later. And nearly four and a half decades on, 16 of their number have lived to see Uruguay carry the spirit of the Andes survivors onto the world rugby stage. Editorial ALreves, S.L., Bercelona, Spain, Read, Piers Paul. [3] Two more passengers fell out of the open rear of the fuselage. 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. The team's. On Oct. 13, 1972, a plane carrying 45 passengers, including the Old Christians Uruguayan rugby team, crashed in the Andes between Chile and Argentina. [8] The aircraft was regarded by some pilots as underpowered, and had been nicknamed by them as the "lead-sled".[9][10]. The book was also re-released, simply titled Alive, in October 2012. It took him years. Ive done six million miles on American Airlines, he said. News. "The only reason why we're here alive today is because we had the goal of returning home (Our loved ones) gave us life. Officers of the Chilean SARS listened to the radio transmissions and concluded the aircraft had come down in one of the most remote and inaccessible areas of the Andes. You probably know the story of the group of Uruguayan rugby players, family members, and fans whose chartered plane crashed into an unnamed 15,000-foot peak on October 13, 1972. Keith Mano of The New York Times Book Review gave the book a "rave" review, stating that "Read's style is savage: unliterary, undecorated as a prosecutor's brief." [21], After the sleeping bag was completed and Numa Turcatti died, Canessa was still hesitant. He then rode on horseback westward for 10 hours to bring help. Eduardo Strauch joins me now from Montevideo in Uruguay. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, Out of the Silence: After the Crash. Once he held those items in his hands, he felt himself transported back to the mountains. And the snow was all over the kerosene of the engines of the plane. He believes that rugby saved their lives. It came to be known as The Miracle in The Andes. [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. The death of Perez, the team captain and leader of the survivors, along with the loss of Liliana Methol, who had nursed the survivors "like a mother and a saint", were extremely discouraging to those remaining alive.[16][22]. The climb was very slow; the survivors at the fuselage watched them climb for three days. A valley at the base of the mountain they stood on wound its way towards the peaks. Others had open fractures to the legs and without treatment none of that group survived the next two and a half months in the frozen wilderness. Then, "he began to climb, until the plane was nearly vertical and it began to stall and shake. harrowing tale of survivors of an airplane crash. They became sicker from eating these. It was Friday the 13th of October in 1972 when an Uruguayan aircraft carrying the Old Christians rugby team and their friends and family went down in the mountains in Argentina, near the border . But it didn't. Twenty-nine guys, we donated our bodies, hand in hand we made a pact. Lagurara failed to notice that instrument readings indicated he was still 6070km (3743mi) from Curic. And after almost 2 1/2 months, the 16 survivors were rescued. But Nando Parrado's story is so extraordinary, so unlikely, that 43 years later it still feels like a miraculous coming together of numerous miracles all at once. "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. On the return trip, they were struck by a blizzard. 1972. [4], The last remaining survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash. On average,. And we have no warm clothes (ph), no water. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates. All hope seemed lost when they located the broken off tail of the plane, found batteries to get the radio to work, only to hear via a crackly message over the airwaves on their 10th day on the mountain that the search had been called off. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Of course, the aspect of the story that has gained the most notoriety was the decision you all made that in order to survive, you would have to start eating your dead friends. The survivors lacked medical supplies, cold-weather clothing and equipment or food, and only had three pairs of sunglasses among them to help prevent snow blindness. To get there, the plane would have to fly over the snow-capped peaks of the Andes Mountains. The next day, the man returned. 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.
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