Santiago - On this day, 1972 is the day awaited by 14 airline passengers who survived when the iron bird crashed in the Andes, Argentina.
They successfully found safe after 10 weeks of waiting for reinforcements that never came. Therefore, two people among the victims agreed to go look for perabadaban order to contact the medical team. They also 'down the mountain' via a route no less monstrous.
After 10 days of walking, finally Roberto Canessa and Fernando Parrado came to a village. They both then contacted security authorities and SAR agencies to show where the wreckage and the other survivors.
6 survivors were transported by helicopter to a hospital in San Fernando. 8 others who were still in the mountains and in severe conditions, forced to wait for the weather is normal to be evacuated.
Fokker 'Fairchild' crashed on its way from Santiago to Montevideo in Chile on Friday, October 13th. The passengers include the 'Christian Brothers', Uruguay rugby team with friends and family.
Do not give up
2 People who come down the mountain it was Roberto Canessa and Fernando Parrado. Both were aged 19 and 21 years old. Despite incredible cold, hungry and sick, they decided to look for civilizations and reinforcements.
Both tough guy finally met a farmer at the foot of the mountain. They immediately assisted and helped.
Canessa is a second year medical student when the accident occurred. He explained to the rescue team that the first 25 of the 45 passengers survived when the pilot made an emergency landing.
Fokker plane landed action because it is experiencing turbulence and engine damage. 8 people were killed two weeks later because of the fuselage roll slip and fall.
The two men were talking quietly and showed zest for life not know surrender.
Parrado, a student machine, explaining how he saw his mother and sister stretchable lives.
"They are one of the survivors, but 2 weeks later, I saw them fall along the rest of the fuselage. They are in the snow. Since that time, I was determined, I have to stay alive," said Parrado as quoted by the BBC On This Day.
Survivors live on wafer chocolate, candy, snacks and light that they find in the cabin. For water, they melt snow.
Seat aircraft used as a bed and stay in the wreckage remains.
Ron Harley, an electrical engineering student, managed to turn on the radio transitor.
"After trying to tamper with the equipment available, our colleague Ron managed to turn on the radio. However, we really hit, on the 8th day loss of our aircraft, they did not give up and search for survivors continues," revealed Canessa again.
He said that they see a lot of search aircraft flying over it. The survivors were trying to attract attention. However, thick snow covered the wreckage made them could not be seen.
Cannibals and made into a film
4 days after they were rescued, a newspaper in Santiago write that they become cannibals eat the flesh of the bodies of their friends in order not to starve. The 14 men admitted that they ate human flesh, two days after the publication of the newspaper.
All survivors aged 19 to 26 years, except for one person aged 36 years.
Roberto Canessa had to compete in the political arena Uruguay, in 1994. But he failed to became a president.
Their story is used as a book titled 'Alive!' written by Piers Paul Read. Then, the big screen in 1993, starring Ethan Hawke.
The 14 survivors of the crash commemorate their 30 years in 2002 to visit the locations where they managed to live.
