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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 ...
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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. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.
Survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash including Dr. Roberto Canessa amid a new Netflix movie "Society of the Snow" that recounts their ordeal including eating human flesh to stay alive.
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 plane crash at the center of Netflix's "Society of the Snow" is based on the true story of a 1972 disaster in the Andes involving a Uruguayan rugby team.
It is a 2-hour special with reenactments of the October 13, 1972 crash, a deadly avalanche and the 72-day struggle for survival that followed, including details of the 60-kilometre (37 mi) trek out of the mountains by Parrado and fellow survivor Roberto Canessa.
Director J.A. Bayona brings a harrowing true story to the screen in 'Society of the Snow,' based on the Uraguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash.