Uruguayan Air Force Flight #571 survivor Daniel Fernández Strauch died in Thursday, aged 77. He was 26 in 1972, at the time ...

I’d just spotted something exotic: a Fairchild-Hiller 227 with FUERZA AEREA URUGUAYA (Uruguayan air force ... On completion of the flight I approached the FAU 571 with curiosity and respect ...

José Luis “Coche” Inciarte, one of the 16 survivors from the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972, died Thursday at the age of 75 ...

Dr. Roberto Canessa and the other survivors of Uruguayan Flight 571 were faced with an unthinkable ultimatum: eat the bodies of their friends who had died following the wreck – or perish themselves.

On 13 October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which took off from Montevideo ... or water supplies", The Sun said. At first, the survivors attempted to eat shoes and clothes in order to ...