In 1972, survivors of a Uruguay plane crash spent 10 weeks dealing with extremes before they were rescued. 50 years later, they're opening up about their story of survival.
Pancho Delgado and Roberto Canessa work on stitching together the sleeping bag that the expeditionaries will take on their trek to safety. On the ground from left to right: Gustavo Zerbino, Fito Strauch, Eduardo Strauch, Nando Parrado, Carlitos Paez and Javier Methol.More than 50 years ago, a plane carrying 45 passengers and crew, including a Uruguayan rugby team and some of their friends and family, crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina.
On Oct. 12, 1972, the flight was supposed to take the amateur Old Christians Club rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, for an exhibition match against the Old Boys Club, an English rugby team in Santiago.Bad weather prevented the team from making it all the way to Santiago, and the plane was forced to land in Mendoza, Argentina overnight.
"I was thrown with an incredible force, and as I was fainting, I was realizing that I was alive and the plane had stopped," Roberto Canessa, one of the survivors, told ABC News. Parrado and the other survivors would face a struggle to quench their thirst and hunger until their expected upcoming imminent rescue. But that rescue wasn't coming.
Mid-November 1972: Roy Harley , Roberto Canessa , and Antonio Vizintin at the tail section while attempting to fix the airplane’s radio. To Roy’s left are the red baby shoes that Nando’s mother bought in Mendoza for her grandchild.As the group continued to plan for a way to safely look for help, they would face another deadly obstacle on day 17. Two avalanches swiftly raged down the mountain and the fuselage became entombed in snow with everyone inside.
Canessa, Parrado and Antonio "Tintin" Vizintín, one of their fellow teammates, eventually found the tail end of the plane. In it, they said they found suitcases with some warm clothing, a small amount of food and batteries. What they anticipated to be a one-day trek from the valley where the fuselage lay, up to the top of the mountain took them three days.
Parrado and Canessa's trek down the mountain proved even more treacherous, and Parrado said his shoes began to break. By the eighth day of their journey, the men approached a river bank and found signs of life: including cattle, a cattle track and a rusty soup can. "As soon as he read my message, he went for help," Parrado said. "And that was probably the brightest moment in the 72-days."
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