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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 ...
See photos of the real 1972 Andes plane crash that inspired ...
Mount Seler is a mountain located on the border between Argentina and Chile on the western rim of the Glacier of Tears cirque in the Andes mountain range. The mountain was first summitted in December 1972 by Nando Parrado, and shortly thereafter by Antonio Vizintin and Roberto Canessa, survivors from the nearby crash site of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
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.
Netflix’s new film, Society of the Snow, is based on—like about half of Netflix's cinematic offerings nowadays—a true story. The movie is inspired by Flight 571, a plane that crashed in 1972 ...
Yellowjackets was inspired by and is loosely based on the 1972 Andes Mountain plane crash.. On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying five crew members and 40 passengers, crashed ...
The Andes Museum 1972 (Spanish: Museo Andes 1972) is located in The Old City in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay.. It is a museum on the story of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 related to a plane accident that took place in the Andes in 1972 involving a group of Uruguayan rugby players, their friends and relatives that were traveling to Chile when the airplane crashed.
The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was carrying an Uruguayan rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into the Andes ...