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Where are the 1972 Andes plane crash survivors now? Of the 16 survivors, 14 are still alive. José Luis “Coche” Inciarte died in 2023 of cancer, per the AFP , as did Javier Methol in 2015.
By survivors: Algorta, Pedro (2016). Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its Aftermath. LID. ISBN 978-1910649411. Canessa, Roberto (2016). I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-6545-7.
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 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 ...
The story of a group of survivors who survived more than two months after their plane crashed in the Andes is ... “I thought I was going to die,” survivor Dr. Roberto Canessa told TODAY’s ...
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.
IN FOCUS: Only 16 of the 45 passengers on board Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 survived the 1972 crash. Their story of survival and sacrifice is the subject of an Oscar-tipped drama now on Netflix.
The book was published two years after the survivors were rescued. The author interviewed many of the survivors as well as the family members of the passengers. He wanted to write the story as it had happened without embellishment. The author wrote: I was given a free hand in writing this book by both the publisher and the sixteen survivors.