Plane Crash
On this day in 1972 the Chilean Air force found 14 survivors from a plane that had crashed in the Argentine Andes over two months before. They survived by eating the flesh of their dead companions and their story was later told in both a book and a film called Alive.
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Fact: today in 1972 a plane carrying a team of young Uruguayan rugby players, crashed high in the Andes.
Some of the sixteen survivors, who were stranded for ten days, ate the bodies of their dead friends in order to stay alive.
Their story became the subject of 1993 film, ‘Alive’.
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