After two months, 16 survivors were rescued and became the inspiration for numerous documentaries, movies and books most notably the 1993 film Alive, which was based on a book by the same name. Having exhausted their paltry stocks of chocolate, sweets, jam and wine even the cotton used to pad the plane seats Roberto Canessa, a medical student, touted the idea of eating the dead bodies strewn around the stranded fuselage. [53], In the United States, the Dallas Stars, the team which Krlis Skrasti played for the previous two seasons, honored their former teammate by placing a decal with Skrasti's number (37) on the helmets of their players. On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying a rugby team from Uruguay, along with some of their friends and family and crew, was flying from Uruguay to Chile when . The committee found several problems that led to the crash. Im condemned to tell this story for evermore, just like the Beatles always having to sing Yesterday. All 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash have reunited for the 50th anniversary, according to a report. How rich is King Charles? It later emerged that those who survived had done so in part by eating their fallen dead comrades, and reaction was initially one of revulsion, but that soon gave way to an appreciation of the fortitude and inventiveness that enabled them to beat seemingly impossible odds. Now he works at Starbucks. This documentary goes much more into the detail and talks about how the survivors ate much of the remains of the dead. Twelve of 45 crew members and passengers died instantly. There were now 29 survivors, alone in the bitter cold of the Andes, with no way of contacting the outside world, and with their planes white fuselage all but invisible in the snow to any would-be rescuers that passed overhead. Fourteen others remain in the airplane. Then, one night, whichCanessa calls the worst of my life, an avalanche killed eight more. Of the 45 passengers on the plane, 27 survived the crash. I dont think so, Parrado replied. Using a piece of glass, he was the first to carve up the bodies of his friends. Six more survivors were later rescued by helicopter, high winds preventing it from returning for the remaining eight. I went out in the snow and prayed to God for guidance. To make peace with their actions, the survivors made a pact that if one of us died, the others were obliged to eat their bodies, Mr Canessa explained. Those who had the strength and awareness to do so immediately began tending to the more seriously wounded.. [58] The 13 October 2011 game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals, which featured Russian ice hockey players Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin, was dedicated to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. List of incidents of cannibalism - Wikipedia A new Netflix adaptation of their story is in the works.
