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An avalanche buried the fuselage in snow on Oct. 29, killing eight more people and trapping other survivors inside. They managed to break out, but had to return when a blizzard hit.
Sixteen people wound up being rescued. Nearly half of the passengers played on the Old Christians Club amateur rugby team, while others were their friends and family. One of the men who on the ...
The survivors took refuge inside the wreckage and endured avalances and freezing cold temperatures as low as -35 Celsius for 72 days, before finally being rescued. Their survival would come to be ...
IN FOCUS: Only 16 of the 45 passengers on board Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 survived the 1972 crash. Their story of survival and sacrifice is the subject of an Oscar-tipped drama now on Netflix.
The last remaining survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two and a half months after the crash. [40] The survivors were taken to hospitals in Santiago for evaluation and were treated for altitude sickness, dehydration, frostbite , broken bones, scurvy and malnutrition .
Society of the Snow (Spanish: La sociedad de la nieve) is a 2023 survival drama film directed by J. A. Bayona and based on Pablo Vierci's 2009 book of the same name, [5] [6] which details the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's experience in 1972 after Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes Mountains.
He is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa , climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help.
The story of a group of survivors who survived more than two months after their plane crashed in the Andes is told in the Netflix movie "Society of the Snow."