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A notorious real-life 1972 plane crash in the Andes is the inspiration behind the new Netflix adventure drama "Society of the Snow.". The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air ...
Club president Daniel Juan chartered a Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D airplane to fly the team over the Andes mountains to Santiago. The aircraft carried 40 passengers and 5 crew members. The pilot in command, Colonel Julio César Ferradas, was an experienced Air Force pilot with 5,117 hours of flight time. He was ...
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.
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.
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.
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains is a 2007 documentary film which tells the story of a rugby team from Uruguay whose plane, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The documentary recounts the struggle to survive by the people on board who survived the initial crash and ...
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.
The Andes disaster, or miracle depending on how full your glass is, needs little introduction. The 1972 calamity – in which a plane carrying 45 people, including an amateur rugby team from ...