Name: The True Story Behind a Rugby Team's Plane Crash In the Andes
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On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying 45 passengers,

including an entire professional rugby team,

crashed in the Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina.

There was no way the survivors could have known it

at the time, but their nightmare had only just begun.

Their story has been called "The Miracle of the Andes"

the survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force flight 571

Today we're going to take a look at the true story

behind the movie Alive and the crash of Uruguayan flight

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The rugby team aboard flight 571 wasn't terribly alarmed

when the pilot told them they were about to encounter

and most had their minds on the coming game.

Roberto Canessa, recalls someone near him asking,

aren't we flying too close to the mountains?

Moments later, his fear was realized when the plane

The crash was later attributed to an error made by the pilot.

While still flying high amongst the Andes mountains,

the pilot turned north to begin the descent into Santiago,

Chile, but the peaks were still too high where they were.

Realizing his mistake, the pilot attempted

to increase the altitude by tilting the plane

nearly fully vertical, which caused the plane to stall.

The engine sputtered, and the plane descended.

Dr. Roberto Canessa would eventually write the book

How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling

exactly how he felt after the plane hit the mountain.

He reported that his body lurched forward upon impact,

His first thought was that his life was about to end.

He held on tight to his seat, and he began to pray.

Someone nearby yelled, please, God, help me.

Help me, while another person shouted that he was blind.

When Canessa looked over at the screaming passenger,

he saw that the man's brain was literally

When the plane finally came to a stop, all of the seats

pushed forward toward the cockpit like a row of dominoes.

The smell of jet fuel and the sounds of screaming

The crash split the fuselage of the plane wide open.

It broke apart, and the tail was nowhere in sight.

and family who had been aboard the flight, found themselves

stranded, surrounded by snow-capped mountains

Convinced that a rescue mission would arrive quickly,

that they believed would be easily visible from the sky.

They also used their footsteps to carve an SOS message

in the snow for planes that might be flying overhead.

On the second day, they heard both a jet and a smaller plane

feeling sure that a rescue was imminent, but day after day

Flight 571 took off with 45 people aboard.

12 of those perished in the crash, and five more

succumbed to their injuries within hours.

Another person died one week later from injuries

sustained in the crash, and on the 17th day,

A sudden avalanche swept over the crash site,

where another eight people met their demise.

The survivors lacked food, which made starvation

However, they were also trapped in an altitude

of 11,800 feet, which meant that their second biggest

problem was the unrelenting freezing temperatures.

To stay alive, the survivors of flight 571 had to get clever.

To get drinking water, they used a section of aluminum

from one of the plane seats to melt the snow.

disassembled all of the wool seat covers to form blankets.

Walking around in the deep snow wasn't easy,

so they figured out they could use seat bottoms as snow shoes.

and to block the cold air from getting inside,

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