Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in a remote location in Chile’s Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972—and those who made it through the crash would need to resort to desperate measures to ...

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How do photos from the 1972 Andes plane crash that inspired "Society of the Snow" compare to the real movie?

I mean, I was buried alive for five or six minutes thinking that I was dying. We were buried there for four days.” The plane crashed in the snowy Andes mountains in October 1972.

When a plane full of amateur rugby players crashed in the Andes in 1972, 16 survivors ate the flesh of their dead friends to stay alive.

Decades before Netflix’s ‘Society of the Snow,’ Ethan Hawke starred in Frank Marshall’s drama about the Uruguay rugby team’s plane crash in the Andes.

"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team. The new Netflix drama, directed ...

But, in December 1972, 72 days after Uruguayan air force flight 571 struck a ridge and crashed deep in the Andes, he and 15 other passengers did make it off the mountain alive.

Survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash including Dr. Roberto Canessa amid a new Netflix movie "Society of the Snow" that recounts their ordeal including eating human flesh to stay alive.

Where are the 1972 Andes plane crash survivors now? Of the 16 survivors, 14 are still alive. José Luis “Coche” Inciarte died in 2023 of cancer, per the AFP, as did Javier Methol in 2015.