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[From The Vault 🔐] Flight 571: Survival in the Andes
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Show Notes
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In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed high in the Andes. Stranded in freezing mountains, the young survivors faced hunger, avalanches, and a terrible moral choice.
It would become one of history’s greatest survival stories.
- 1972 Andes plane crash of Uruguayan rugby team
- Navigation error; early descent; crash into mountain
- Survivors shelter in plane body; bitter cold at night
- Student doctors treat injuries with improvised tools
- Melting snow for water; radio says search is cancelled
- Starvation leads to agreement to eat the dead
- Deadly avalanche buries shelter; more survivors die
- Tail of plane found; batteries fail; sleeping bag created
- Parrado and Canessa walk west; find help by note
- Helicopter rescue; 16 survive; public debate and aftermath
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