Alive: Story Of The Andes Survivors

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On October 12, 1972, a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan Air Force, chartered by an amateur rugby team, set off from Montevideo in Uruguay for Santiago in Chile. Reports of bad weather in the Andes brought the plane down in Mendoza, a small town on the Argentinian side of the range. The next day the weather had improved. The Fairchild set off again, flying south to the Planchon Pass. At 3:21 P.M. the pilot reported to Air Traffic Control in Santiago that he was over the Pass of Planchon, and at 3:24 that he was over the town of Curic6 in Chile. He was authorized to turn north and begin his descent to the airport of Pudahuel. At 3:30 he reported his height as 15,000 feet, but when the Santiago control tower spoke to the Fairchild a minute later there was no reply.

For eight days the Chileans, Argentinians, and Uruguayans searched for the plane. Among the passengers there had been not just the fifteen members of the rugby team but twenty-five' of their friends and relations, all coming from prominent families in Uruguay. The search was fruitless. The pilot had evidently miscalculated his position and flown north toward Santiago when he was still in the middle of the mountains. It was early spring in the southern hemisphere, and the Andes Mountain climbing.

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