After the crash Alvaro moved to Brazil for years but returned to Uruguay where he became a dad of four and worked as an air conditioning engineer. Survivors of 1972 Andes plane crash who lasted ...

Mangino Schmid, one of the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, passed away in Montevideo just one day before his 71st ...

Parrado, 56, is perhaps the best-known of the 16 survivors of the crash of a Uruguayan Air Force plane in the Andes Mountains in October 1972 as it was carrying his rugby team to a match in Chile.

"In these kinds of situations it's not how you survive but why you survive," Roberto Canessa tells PEOPLE of surviving the 1972 Andes flight disaster Just a few days after their plane crashed into ...

On 13 October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which took off from Montevideo bound for Santiago, Chile, lost its wings when it hit a mountain ridge in the Andes and crash-landed on a glacier.

On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world ...