Soccer Team That Crashed In The Andes
Olivia Luz
Npr s lulu garcia navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book out of the silence.
He was a 19 year old student travelling to a rugby match with his team. However the plane from the uruguayan air force with 45 people crashes on the andes mountains and after the search party they are considered dead. Of the 45 on board 12 died in crash and six more. In 1972 the uruguayan rugby team is flying to chile to play a game.
Four young men freezing cold starving and struggling to. Eduardo strauch survived the 1972 andes plane crash of the uruguayan rugby team. 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 october 13 1972. Fifty four years after a douglas dc 3 crashed in chile s andes killing all 24 people aboard including members of a chilean soccer team and three referees a team of mountaineers.
Uruguayan air force flight 571 later known as andes flight disaster and the miracle of the andes was a chartered flight that originated in montevideo uruguay bound for santiago chile on october 13 1972 while crossing the andes the inexperienced co pilot of the fairchild fh 227d who was the pilot flying mistakenly believed they had reached curicó chile despite instrument readings. 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. Roberto canessa was on board the charter plane when it crashed in 1972. A group of chilean mountaineers pose for a photo at the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the andes 54 years ago killing 24 people including eight members of a professional soccer team.
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