Miracle of the Andes: How Survivors of the 1972 Flight Disaster Struggled to Stay Alive

At first, none of the passengers panicked. Few even showed much concern. Most of the 45 on board were in their late teens and early twenties, members of a rugby team traveling from Uruguay to play a show in Chile, and they screamed and screamed when their chartered plane took off. struck turbulence over the Andes and fell several hundred feet. Then the plane struck a second air pocket and fell even more – and now, suddenly, as it fell under the cloud cover, passengers could see a mountain just ten or twenty feet away.

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