It was the Uruguayan Rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College (Montevideo)) and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. Of the 45 people who embarked on the flight, only 16 survived, while resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. It was published two years after survivors of the crash were rescued.
The move Alive tells the story of it, good movie.
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