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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 in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes , literally Tragedy of the Andes ) and the ...
The Uruguayan Air Force also used to show interest on the IA-58D Pucará Delta modernization program offered by Fábrica Argentina de Aviones, [42] but more recently, among some of the possible aircraft that the Air Force was considering, there are the Hongdu JL-10 [43] or the Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, [44] but despite how necessary its ...
Alive: 20 Years Later is a 1993 documentary film produced, directed and written by Jill Fullerton-Smith and narrated by Martin Sheen.The documentary focused on the lives (20 years later) of the 16 survivors, all of whom were Uruguayan, of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
All three were among the 67 lives lost in the air disaster over Washington on Wednesday night, when a U.S. Army helicopter and a passenger jet collided near Reagan National Airport.
The tower had cleared the plane for landing on Runway 33, but just seconds before the crash, an air traffic operator asked the helicopter—with radio call sign PAT 25—if the commercial jet ...
Live updates: Scores feared dead after plane crash near Washington, DC. Air traffic control audio: 'I just saw a fireball' At 8:47 p.m., an air traffic controller is heard hailing the helicopter.
Carlos "Carlitos" Miguel Páez Rodríguez (born October 31, 1953) is a Uruguayan entrepreneur and former rugby player. He is one of the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 , which crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic control audio recorded the moments before and after an American Airlines regional passenger jet crashed with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in a midair ...