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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The book references Piers Paul Read's 1974 account of the accident and aftermath, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, a book based on interviews with the survivors. Miracle in the Andes, however, is told only from Parrado's point of view 34 years later. In Chapter 10 of Miracle in the Andes, Parrado notes that after he returned from the ...
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.
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 ...
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains: himself: documentary 2009: Independent Lens' (Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors) himself: TV series documentary 2010: I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash: himself: documentary aired on History Channel 2023: Society of the Snow: Carlos Páez Vilaró feature film 2024
It is one of the most amazing stories you can possibly imagine. In 1972, 16 men survived 72 days in harsh conditions after a plane carrying a rugby team from Uruguay crashed in the Andes mountains ...