On October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). There are 79 days remaining. Events 1-1899 54 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius I dies after being poisoned by his wife Agrippina. 1307 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair... 13 October 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. Events January January 2 - the Pierre Hotel Heist - Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the... 1972 an Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop The Fairchild Hiller FH-227 was a United States-made version of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined turboprop passenger aircraft manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller. It is superficially similar to the Friendship, though a closer look at the fuselage shows that the FH-227 has a larger cargo... Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the See also architecture with non_sequential dynamic execution scheduling (ANDES). Please note that the geology in this article reflects views from the first decade of the 20th century. It is a good example of the descriptive geology of that time, but because it is pre_plate tectonics cannot be relied on when... Andes carrying the Stella Maris (Christian Brothers) school's Old Christians rugby team from This article is about the capital of Uruguay. There is also Montevideo, Minnesota, in the United States of America. Montevideo is the capital, chief port and largest city in Uruguay (population 1.8 million out of a total 3.43 million in Uruguay as of 2004 [1]). Independence Plaza, Montevideo... Montevideo, The Republic Eastern of the Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a Spanish speaking country located in southern South America. The nation is triangular in shape and is bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Rio de la Plata... Uruguay to play a match in Satellite image of Santiago Santiago (full form Santiago de Chile) is the capital of Chile. It is situated in the central valley, in the Metropolitana Region. History Santiago was founded by Pedro de Valdivia on February 12, 1541 with the name Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. The founding ceremony was held... Santiago, The Republic of Chile is a country located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argentina to the east, Bolivia to the northeast and Peru to the north. National... Chile. Following a navigation error, the plane started to descend whilst still over the mountains and crashed near the border between The Republic of Chile is a country located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argentina to the east, Bolivia to the northeast and Peru to the north. National... Chile and Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast and Chile in the west. The country is formally named Rep... Argentina. The plane clipped a mountain peak at 4200 m, ripping off the left wing and breaking away the tail section. The In an aircraft, the fuselage is the main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. In single engine aircraft it will usually contain an engine, athough in some amphibious aircraft the single engine is mounted on a pylon attached to the fuselage. The fuselage also serves to position... fuselage crash-landed on a steep mountain slope and continued to slide down the mountain before coming to a stop in a snow bank.

Of the 45 people on the plane, 27 survived the immediate events of the crash, but faced a significant survival challenge in the high, freezing mountain environment. The group were dismayed to hear on the radio that the rescue search had been called off, but since many had leg injuries from the crash they had little option other than to stay where they were. The group survived for 72 days, partly by taking the decision to eat their dead comrades, although a further third were to die of their injuries, exposure or getting caught in This article refers to the natural event known as an avalanche. For other uses, see below: Chevrolet has produced a car named Avalanche The Avalanches are an Australian dance music group An Avalanche diode is an electronic device Avalanche Corporate Technology is a corporate shared source intellectual property cooperative An... avalanches.

Eventually on the 62nd day three of the men, Nando Parrado, Roberto Canessa, and Antonio Vizintin, decided that the only option was to attempt to climb out of the mountains to find help. It took them a further ten days to reach civilisation and raise the alarm. They finally encountered a man with a horse, who helped to take them to a telephone.

On December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 9 days remaining. Events 1603 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I. 1807 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries... 22 December half of the remaining 16 survivors were rescued from the crash site by two helicopters from the Chilean Air Force, although eight had to be left to be rescued the following day.

See Also

• Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as described by Hans Staden. Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of the same species, e.g. humans eating humans (sometimes called anthropophagy), or dogs eating dogs. Among humans, this practice has been attributed to people in the past all over the... Cannibalism

The events of the crash and its survival are described in several books, including

• Clay Blair Jr., Survive!, (1973) New York: Berkley Publishing
• Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, (1974) ISBN 1885283083

There are also two films of the story

• Supervivientes de los Andes (1976) made for Mexican TV
• Alive: The Miracle of the Andes is a 1993 movie directed by Frank Marshall that narrates this story which is one of (if not the most) notable cases of surviving cannibalism in modern history. The movie was based on the book Alive by Piers Paul Read. On October 13, 1972... Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993), the better known Hollywood production.

External links

• Alive the Andes Survivors (http://members.aol.com/PorkinsR6/alive.html)