[21]:9495, Parrado protected the corpses of his sister and mother, and they were never eaten. He had prearranged with the priest who had buried his son to mark the bag containing his son's remains. [5][6] Once across the mountains in Chile, south of Curic, the aircraft was supposed to turn north and initiate a descent into Pudahuel Airport in Santiago. Cundo nos van a buscar arriba? The white plane was invisible in the snowy blanket of the mountain. They couldn't help everyone. [2] Twelve men and a Chilean priest were transported to the crash site on 18 January 1973. The weather on 13 October also affected the flight. [17][26], Gradually, there appeared more and more signs of human presence; first some evidence of camping, and finally on the ninth day, some cows. They carried the remaining survivors to hospitals in Santiago for evaluation. A few seconds later, Daniel Shaw and Carlos Valeta fell out of the rear fuselage. This has to go down as one of the greatest tragedies in aviation history, not for the scale of death, but for the hardships some of the survivors came to endure. Their story became the basis of a best-selling book and Hollywood film. 2022. The plane, traveling from Uruguay to Chile, went down over the Andes moun-tains after on October 13, 1972. After some debate the next morning, they decided that it would be wiser to return to the tail, remove the aircraft's batteries, and take them back to the fuselage so they might power up the radio and make an SOS call to Santiago for help.[17]. When they rested that evening they were very tired, and Canessa seemed unable to proceed further. Parrado now sees those who died and gave up their bodies for food as the very first "consent donors", like modern organ donors enabling others to live. "At about this time we were falling in the Andes. The death of Perez, the team captain and leader of the survivors, along with the loss of Liliana Methol, who had nursed the survivors "like a mother and a saint", were extremely discouraging to those remaining alive.[16][22]. After just a few days, we were feeling the sensation of our own bodies consuming themselves just to remain alive. As the weather improved with the arrival of late spring, two survivors, Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, climbed a 4,650-metre (15,260ft) mountain peak without gear and hiked for 10 days into Chile to seek help, traveling 61 km (38 miles). The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, was only four years old. But this story has endured, and at the time, in the early 70s, became controversial, because of what happened next. Enrique Platero had a piece of metal stuck in his abdomen that when removed brought a few inches of intestine with it, but he immediately began helping others. With no other choice, on the third day they began to eat the raw flesh of their newly dead friends. The solar collector melted snow which dripped into empty wine bottles.
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