• coordillera plane crash in the Andes

    the Uruguay national rugby union team with friends and family suffered a plane crash in a plane crash in the Andes
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    survivors
    The numbers of events: 16 people survived. 29. Were killed 72 days isolated in the Andes (from 13 October to 22 December 1972). They endured temperatures down to -40 C.
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    misfortune

    survivors who managed to cross the Andes Mountains for help
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    The British writer Piers Paul Read: One year after the event, in 1974, the book "The Story of the Andes Survivors Alive" was released
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    rescued

    sixteen people survived the air disaster
  • Ramon Moncho Sabella

    Ramon Moncho Sabella
    He was 21 when the accidente.Estudiante agronomy occurred.
    Rafael Echevarren mate in high school.
    Married to Gloria Scappin.
    Entrepreneur - Speaker.
  • Daniel Fernandez

    Daniel Fernandez
    26 years. Agronomy student. Traveling with his cousins Eduardo and Adolfo Strauch and Daniel Shaw. Married to Amalia Ruiz. Children: Milagros, Santiago and Ignacio. It is agronomist. Entrepreneur - Speaker.
  • Eduardo Strauch

    Eduardo Strauch
    He was born on August 13, 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay, José Eduardo Strauch Urioste. He is an actor, known for Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2007), The endless flight (2015) and Alive: 20 Years Later (1993). He has been married to Laura Braga since 1979. They have five children. He is a cousin of Daniel Fernández and Adolfo Strauch. They also survived the crash.
  • Fernando Seler Parrado Dolgay known Nando parrado

    Fernando Seler Parrado Dolgay known Nando parrado
    He is known to be one of the sixteen survivors of the plane crash in the Andes, also known as Tragedy of the Andes, which occurred on October 13, 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with other survivors, he and Roberto Canessa climbed through the mountains on a journey of almost ten days to find help.
    former rugby player, former racer of boats, cars and motorcycles, entrepreneur, producer and host of Uruguayan television.
  • Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta

    Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta
    He is a doctor and former Uruguayan rugby player. He is known to be one of the survivors of the Andes accident occurred on October 13, 1972.
  • Antonio tintin Vistini:

    Antonio tintin Vistini:
    was born in Montevideo in 1953. He studied at the Christian Brothers school. He is currently Vice President of the Rugby Union of Uruguay (URU) and member of the board of the foundation live.
    After the accident, he continued his studies in law. He married and while his first wife was widowed at age 38, with whom he had two children.
  • Roberto Bobby francois

    Roberto Bobby francois
    He was 20 when the crash occurred in the Andes Mountains, agriculture graduate student Estella Maris. It is agricultural technician and farmer had 7 children with Graciana Manini.
  • Roy Harley

    Roy Harley
    Roy Harley Alex Sanchez was 20 at the time of the tragedy, Stella Maris graduate student in mechanical engineering and Old Christians player
    He is married with Cecilia Surraco, children: Maria Eloisa and Alexander, he is an industrial engineer.
  • Alvaro Mangino

    Alvaro Mangino
    was 19 when the accident occurred, now devoted to lecturing, is a recognized representative in Uruguay Chilean company that sells supplies for the wine industry
  • Jose Luis Coche

    Jose Luis Coche
    I was 24 years old when the accident happened, now dedicated to dictate conferences susu moving away business, he is married and has three children
  • Javier Alfredo Methol Abal

     Javier Alfredo Methol Abal
    I had 36 years.The wife died during the 72 days
    Lecturer.
  • Pancho Delgado

    Pancho Delgado
    While still in law school, this 24-year Uruguay was a member of the Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes October 13, 1972, which eventually forced him and other survivors to resort to cannibalism.
    legal career title, known in Uruguay (civil law jurisdiction), as a notary, similar to the common law lawyer Delgado lies in Carrasco, Uruguay, where he is a distinguished jurist. He is married and he has two children.
  • Carlos Miguel Páez Rodríguez

    Carlos Miguel Páez Rodríguez
    known as Carlitos Paez, is an agricultural technician, entrepreneur, publicist, writer and lecturer Uruguayan. The October 13, 1972, was 18 when he joined the accident of the Andes, was the youngest of the survivors, he served 19 years in the Andes. It was the December 22, 1972, after 72 days in the mountains, that 16 survivors flying military aircraft charter Faichild F-571, Carlitos Paez was rescued, along with Uruguayan rugby players of the team Old Christians, lost in the mountains.
  • Gustavo Zerbino

    Gustavo Zerbino
    Gustavo Zerbino, doctor of 48 years, president of Merck Uruguay, rugby player and father of four children, advised other executives on how to make decisions. He had to decide whether to eat human flesh in the plane crash in the Andes. President of the pharmaceutical company Merck in Uruguay. Share your tragic experience in the Chilean Andes -in which had with the rest of his rugby teammates to decide meat from the rest of the dead in order to survive-with other business leaders.
  • José María Jacinto Pedro Algorta Duran

    José María Jacinto Pedro Algorta Duran
    José María Jacinto Pedro Algorta Duran (b. August 31, 1951 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is one of the sixteen survivors of the Andes plane crash, which occurred on October 13, 1972. Pedro Algorta was 21 years old when the plane carrying friends of the Uruguayan rugby team
    After the tragedy where Algorta lost most of his friends, he moved to Montevideo to Buenos Aires where he continued his studies in economics at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1982 he graduated with a Master's degree in Business