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Uruguayan Air Force Flight is the true story of a plane crash, survival, and the will to live. It inspired several books, one which was adapted into the 1993 film, Alive. The film received generally good reviews, although some critics thought it downplayed the fascinating sociological details in favor of action and heroism. Real. Life.Horror. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, was an airline flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team to Santiago, Chile for a rugby match. They would never get there. On Friday October 13, 1972 the Fairchild FH-227D crashed into a high peak in the Andes, the longest and one of the highest mountain ranges in the world. Twelve passengers died upon impact or shortly after. Five more died by the next morning; and another succumbed to injuries on the eighth day. The twenty-seven remaining passengers were faced with an impossible challenge. Their situation was grim. Many suffered injuries from the crash, including broken legs from the aircraft's seats piling together during the impact. The survivors were not dressed for the climate. They had brought little food and had no gear or equipment for their situation. The only sustenance they had to survive on were some chocolate, nougat, and some crackers and jam. In addition, they had some large bottles of wine the pilots had bought during a stop in Mendoza. Not much for twenty-seven people, but the survivors made sure this food was rationed as best as possible. But if they were not found soon, it would run out sooner than later. Despite the bleak outlook and the hopelessness they felt, the group pulled themselves together, even if it didn't appear that way to them at the time. Those who were able, worked to keep the injured as comfortable as possible. They also kept the group safe from exposure to the elements by using what they could find to block the gaping hole that was the missing tail piece. They found a small transistor radio in the crash remains and were able to use it for any word on the search for the group, which consisted of parties from three countries. Luck seemed to be against the group of survivors. Their plane was white- being punched into the side of a snowy mountain made it virtually impossible to see from the sky. Even worse, the word came over radio that the search for the craft had been canceled after only eight days. Passenger, Roy Harley was the first to hear the news of the cancellation. In an excerpt from Piers Paul Read's book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, describes the moments after this discovery The others who had clustered around Roy, upon hearing the news, began to sob and pray, all except Parrado, who looked calmly up the mountains which rose to the west. Gustavo [Coco] Nicolich came out of the plane and, seeing their faces, knew what they had heard... [Nicolich] climbed through the hole in the wall of suitcases and rugby shirts, crouched at the mouth of the dim tunnel, and looked at the mournful faces which were turned towards him. 'Hey boys,' he shouted, 'there's some good news! We just heard on the radio. They've called off the search.' Inside the crowded plane there was silence. As the hopelessness of their predicament enveloped them, they wept. 'Why the hell is that good news?' Paez shouted angrily at Nicolich. 'Because it means,' [Nicolich] said, 'that we're going to get out of here on our own.' The courage of this one boy prevented a flood of total despair. With their food stocks dwindling, the group strived to survive by melting snow into water by using metal from seats and placing snow on it. The snow then melted in the sun and dribbled into empty wine bottles. With their stock broke and no vegetation or animals on the rocky, snow and ice covered mountain, the able survivors scrambled to find anything edible within the plane wreckage. They knew there was no hope of finding food, but their hunger grew so voracious they searched anyway. They scoured the floors and ever corner for crumbs. As desperation took hold, they began tearing open the fabric that covered the plane seats in search of edible straw, but found only foam. One tore the leather off a suitcase, but in the end it was decided that the chemicals used in making of the leather made it of no edible use. Realizing that there was nothing but metal, plastic, ice and rock, the group came to a collective, but very hard decision to eat their dead comrades, beginning with the pilot. Some survivors initially rejected the thought of eating human flesh, but after understanding it was the only means of staying alive, changed their minds a few days later. Conessa, who was one of the first to mention the idea of eating the dead, went out into the snow and using a shard of glass, began to cut several slithers of flesh from a body. One by one most of the survivors took a piece and forced it down their throats. By all accounts, they couldn't bring themselves to chew the flesh, just swallow it. The shame and disgust felt while eating the flesh was soon replaced by a small measure of gratefulness to be relieved of the pain caused by severe hunger. On the morning of October 29, eight more survivors died when an avalanche barreled down upon them as they slept in the fuselage. For three days they slept in a significantly confined space since the plane was now buried under several feet of snow. One survivor was able to poke a hole through the roof of the fuselage in order to keep the remaining group from suffocating. In a continuing display of self-preservation, the group discussed seeking help by tracking over the mountains. Left with few options, a few survivors were convinced this was their only way to make it out of the Andes alive. Several short expeditions were made in the first few weeks after the crash, but the combination of altitude sickness, dehydration, malnutrition, extreme cold and snow blindness made any significant climb an impossible task. The group selected the most fit members to make the trek. They were allowed the largest rations of food, and given the warmest clothing. They waited nearly seven weeks to allow spring to arrive and regain some strength. The expeditionaries hoped to reach Chile, but a large mountain stood in their way, blocking any hope of walking west. Therefore the group went east and after several hours of walking, unexpectedly came across the tail section of the plane, which was largely intact. Inside, the group found suitcases that contained clean clothing, candy, cigarettes and a few comic books. They decided to set up camp for the night, then continue east the next morning. However they nearly froze to death the second night of the expedition, which was their first night sleeping outside, exposed to the mountains harsh elements. After some debate, they decided it would be wiser to return to the tail, remove the plane's batteries and take them back to the fuselage hoping to power up the radio and make an SOS call to Santiago. Unfortunately, the batteries were too heavy to drag back to the fuselage, which lay uphill from the tail section. They then decided to return to the fuselage, disconnect the radio system and bring it to the batteries. Survivor Roy Harley being an amateur electronics enthusiast was selected to help with this effort. Unbeknownst to the team, the radio used AC, while the batteries used in the tail naturally produced DC. The plan was doomed from the start. After days of trying to make the radio work, the group gave up. They returned to the fuselage, fully aware that their only hope of being rescued was climbing their way out of the mountains. Undaunted, they made preparations to do just that. It was now clear that they had to head west, over the mountains. Also clear was the fact that they had to find a way to keep from freezing to death during the frigid nights in the Andes. Someone came up with the idea for a sleeping bag. They knew the couldn't expect to find shelter on the open slopes. They needed a way to survive the long nights without freezing. The quilted batts of insulation they'd taken from the tail section gave them their solution. Sewing the pieces together to make a large quilt. Then they folded the quilt in half and stitched the seams together and made a sleeping bag large enough for all three men who were set for the trek. With the warmth of three bodied trapped in the insulated cloth, they might just be able to survive the cold nights. After the sleeping bag was complete, another survivor, Numa Turcatti succumbed to his injuries. On December 12, some two months after the crash, three survivors, Parrado, Canessa and Vizintín took to the mountains, determined to succeed. The sleeping bag they quilted proved to keep them from succumbing to the bitter elements during the nights. On the third day of the trek, one of the members reached the top of the mountain before the other two. To his dismay, there were mountains as far as his eyes could see. He realized that they were still tens of kilometers from the red valley of Chile. But after spying a small "Y" in the distance, he estimated that a way out of the mountains must lie beyond. The three men refused to give hope. Knowing the quest would take longer than they originally thought, one member, Vizintin was sent back to the fuselage so they could better ration what supplies they brought with them. The two remaining men hiked for several more days. They were actually able to reach the narrow valley Parrado seen when they had reached the top of the first mountain. There they found a river, which they followed until they reached the end of the snowline. Gradually, they began to see more and more evidence of human presence. When they rested that evening, one man gathering firewood spotted a man on horseback on the other side of the river, then two more. He shouted to the men but the noise of the river made communication difficult. One of the men on horseback, Sergio Catalan shouted back, "tomorrow." The survivors knew that help was coming soon and settled down to sleep. The next morning Catalan took some loaves of bread and went back to the river. There he found the two men still on the other side, on their knees and asking for help. Catalan threw them the bread loaves, which were eaten right away. And a pen and paper which was tied to a rock. One of the men wrote a note about the plane crash and asking for help. He then tied it to a rock and threw it back to Catalan, who read it and sent them a signal that he understood. Catalan rode on horseback for many hours westwards to bring help. He was able to reach a truck, then a police station at Puente Negro, where the news was finally dispatched to the Army command in San Fernando and then to Santiago. The following morning the rescue expedition left Santiago, and, after a stop in San Fernando, moved eastwards. The news that people had survived the October 13 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had also leaked to the international press and a flood of reporters began to appear along the narrow route from Puente Negro to Termas del Flaco. In the morning of the day when the rescue started, those remaining at the crash site heard on their radio that Parrado and Canessa had been successful in finding help and that afternoon, 22 December 1972, two helicopters carrying search and rescue climbers arrived. However, the expedition (with Parrado onboard) was not able to reach the crash site until the afternoon, when it is very difficult to fly in the Andes. In fact the weather was very bad and the two helicopters were able to take only half of the survivors. They departed, leaving the rescue team and remaining survivors at the crash site to once again sleep in the fuselage, until a second expedition with helicopters could arrive the following morning. The second expedition arrived at daybreak on December 23 and all sixteen survivors were rescued after 72 days of suffering in the Andes. All of the survivors were taken to hospitals in Santiago and treated for altitude sickness, frostbite, scurvy, dehydration, broken bones and malnutrition. When first rescued, the survivors kept quiet about about eating the flesh of the dead passengers, explaining they had eaten some cheese they had carried with them. But as the site was visited in order to take care of the deceased, the macabre evidence came to light. News outlets began to disseminate the gruesome story of "cannibalism" in the Andes, but the survivors found comfort when the Catholic Church officially declared that they had done the right thing in the face of extraordinary circumstances. The bodies of the deceased were buried beneath a pile of stones. An iron cross was erected from the center of the grave to honor those who lost their life on the mountain. Any debris that was strewn about was cleared and removed from the site. The remaining fuselage was burned and destroyed to prevent curiosity seekers from taking anything as souvenirs. .......................... The story of the crash survivors and what they had to do to survive brought many people to question if they could do the same thing. Instead of losing their mind and giving up, they kept their wits about them and pulled through. No doubt it took a lot of bravery, ingenuity and faith. No one really knows what they are capable of until they are faced with a do or die situation. The survivors of the flight demonstrated a will that's deep within all of us. Their story reminds us of what the average human can do when confronted with dire choices, something man has lost over the centuries. And for that, they're heroes. |
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