Rugby team s fabled survival in andes as uruguay take on england, sky speaks to one of the uruguayan rugby players involved in a miracle tale of. Faced with starvation and death, those still alive. On board the plane was the manchester united football team, nicknamed the busby babes, along with supporters and journalists. Nando parrado recalls surviving 1972 andes plane wreck. The fairchild f227 left carrasco airport and landed in mendoza. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in subzero temperatures.
Plane crash and the cannibalism survivor of plane crash andes plane crash athletes who were lost to plane crashespics of. Uruguayan rugby team plane crash book piers paul read. Lessons learned from the 1972 andes plane crash spy. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature headon at its most furious and inhospitable. Roberto canessa relives a plane crash in the andes 45 years ago. The uruguayan rugby players whose plane crashed in the andes mountains 38 years ago inspired the book and movie alive.
But after nearly freezing to death, they decided to return to the crash site. To get there, the plane would have to fly over the snowcapped peaks of the andes mountains. And there were already signs that the flight wouldnt be easy. Nprs lulu garcianavarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, out of the silence. We remember other teams who lost their players and staff to air. In 1972, a uruguayan rugby team had to overcome incredible odds to survive when their plane crash landed in the andes resorting to cannibalism to stay alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane s fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. Im familiar with the story of the plane crash in the andes involving a young rugby team from uruguay on their way to a match in chile. Without it, the 16 survivors out of 45 in a famous 1972 plane crash in the andes that decimated a uruguayan rugby team wouldnt have made it. On december 21, 1972, two members of a rugby team from uruguay who had been walking through the snowcapped andes mountains in.
Twentythree of the 44 passengers on board the aircraft died in the crash. Uruguayan rugby team, who were forced to eat human flesh to stay alive after plane went down, play match postponed in 1972 associated press in. A uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash. How cannibalism pushed an andes plane crash survivor to. Chile military plane crashes near antarctic with 38 on. Alive is a 1993 american biographical survival drama film based on piers paul reads 1974 book alive. The most physically fit members of the rugby club, including canessa, decided to try their luck. A history of air disasters involving sports teams the. How the uruguayan air force flight 571 crash drove a rugby. Andes survivors play rugby 40 years after disaster bbc news. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive. The story of the andes survivors, which details a uruguayan rugby team s crash aboard uruguayan air force flight 571 into the andes mountains on october, 1972. In 1972 the old christians club charted a uruguayan air force plane to transport the team from montevideo, uruguay, to santiago, chile. Members of the old christians rugby team stand near the fuselage of their uruguayan air force f227 plane two months after it crashed while ferrying them to a match in chile.
He had cut the meat from the dead bodies of his friends when their uruguay rugby team s plane crashed into a remote. Uruguayan air force flight 571 was a chartered flight that originated in montevideo, uruguay, bound for santiago, chile. After numerous days spent searching for survivors, the. Bad weather forced an unscheduled landing in mendoza, argentina. The plane was carrying 17 crew members and 21 passengers, the air force said. Llandow air disaster 12th march 1950 it was on the 12th march 1950 that the hearts of the llanharan and abercarn rugby football clubs were ripped out on a bright, sunlit afternoon when an avrotudor v plane carrying 78 welsh rugby fans and five crew crashed into a field near llandow in the vale of glamorgan. Members of a uruguayan rugby team survived the air crash in the andes in 1972 by eating the frozen remains of those who had died. After the plane crashand the cannibalisma life of hope. Four young men freezing cold, starving and struggling to. The group set out from the crash site to explore the surrounding area. Stella maris college rugby team airplane crash 1972. Uruguayan air force flight 571, flight of an airplane chartered by a rugby team that crashed in the andes mountains on october, 1972. Andean plane crash survivor wants to save lives in 1972, canessa was one of 45 people on a plane traveling from uruguay to chile with a rugby team onboard when it crashed in the argentine andes.
With ethan hawke, vincent spano, josh hamilton, bruce ramsay. 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. Plane crash leads to unbelievable survival story duration. On october 12, 1972, a uruguayan air force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snowpeaked andes mountains.
Eduardo strauch survived the 1972 andes plane crash of the uruguayan rugby team. A documentary explores the crash of the plane carrying the. Russian khl hockey team jet crash is latest tragic crash to devastate sports world of the 45 passengers on the plane, 27 survived the crash. Surviving the andes plane crash is a 2010 television documentary recounting the tragedy of uruguayan air force flight 571 from the perspective of. Peruvian rugby team plane crash after the plane crash and cannibalism a life of hope source. A survivor of the uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects i spent 72 days in the andes mountains before we were rescued. In the impact, 12 people died and during the first night, 3 more people passed away. Canessa was one of 16 members of the uruguayan rugby team to survive the crash of a flight carrying 45 passengers and crew. Canessa was a 19yearold secondyear medical student when the plane he and his rugby teammates had chartered to carry them to a match crashed into the frozen mountains. Survivors of a plane crash in the andes who were kept alive by eating the bodies of the victims have played a rugby match in chile to mark the 40th anniversary of the accident.
Then they came up with the idea of making a sleeping bag from the insulation of the plane. South african pilot who flew over stadium during final of. On october 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snowpeaked andes. Its rescue team was scouring the area where it lost communication with the plane, with the goal of rescuing possible. Ive seen a feature film and a documentary about events. Without it, the 16 survivors out of 45 in a famous 1972 plane crash in the andes that decimated a uruguayan rugby team wouldnt have made it through 72 days in a. The team had an intercollege match fixture in santiago, chile.
October, 1972 a uruguayan rugby team crashed into the andes mountains. The plane crashed into the andes mountains on friday, october, 1972. Andes plane crash survivors mark 40th anniversary with. Dont give up, plane crash survivors tell trapped miners. Both were challenging to watch, but i had no idea about the real extent of this tragedy. A navy plane carrying perus firstdivision soccer team alianza lima plunged into the pacific ocean on dec.
Out of the fortyfive original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. On october 12 the twinengined fairchild turboprop left carrasco international airport, carrying 5 crew members and 40 passengers. Roberto canessa was on board the charter plane when it crashed in 1972 he was a 19yearold student travelling to a rugby match with his team of the 45 on board, 12 died in crash and six more over. Survivor of 1972 andes plane crash who resorted to. On october 12 1972, a plane carrying stella maris college rugby team plus coaches and supporters took off from montevideo. The plane crash that wiped out most of a topflight brazilian soccer squad late monday evoked memories of the 1972 uruguayan rugby tragedy that spawned the book and hit. In addition to club members, friends, family, and others were also on board, having been recruited to help. Johannesburg laurie kay, a south african pilot best known for flying a boeing 747 passenger jet low over a johannesburg stadium before the final of the 1995 rugby. The team was stranded for 72 days in the bitter cold without only a couple cans of sardines, chocolate, and several bottles of liquor. Andes plane crash survivor roberto canessa on eating his. Alongside the marshall football team plane crash, this is perhaps one of the two most famous or infamous plane crashes in history. In 1972, the uruguayan rugby club known as the old christians club wast traveling from uruguay to play a match in santiago, chile. Fernando parrado, now 67, was only 22 when he was in a plane crash that left 16 survivors in the andes mountains for 72 days. The survivors not only had to withstand the hunger and the fearful mountains, but also 30 degreebelowzero.
That was the very real, very heartclenching and gutbusting decision that the surviving members of the 1972 uruguayan amateur rugby team faced when their. 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 the plane crashed into the andes mountains on friday, october, of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in subzero temperatures. Mr canessa gave an interview to sputnik news in 2016, at the time brazil was mourning the deaths of 71 members of a football team and journalists killed in a plane crash in colombia. Life sometimes forces extreme solutions to difficult situations. The pilot decided that the plane would struggle to make the trip over the mountains, so he chose to fly south and cross at a pass. A rugby team from uruguay faces stark choices when the plane carrying them to a match in chile crashed on october, 1972. In 1972, the uruguayan rugby team is flying to chile to play a game. Story of the 1972 andes plane crash in out of the silence. On friday th october of 1972, an uruguayan plane, which was carrying 45 passengers to chile, most of whom were students and rugby players, crashed in the andes mountains. On the tenth day after the crash, the survivors learned from a transistor radio that the search had been called off. On october, 1972, uruguayan air force flight 571 left the city of mendoza, argentina carrying the old christians rugby club of montevideo, uruguay to a scheduled game in santiago, chile.
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