José Luis “Coche” Inciarte, one of the 16 survivors from the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972, died Thursday at the age of 75 ...
Only 32 survivors — primarily members of the Old ... The crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 occurred when the aircraft couldn’t reach an altitude of 26,000 feet to fly directly over ...
On 13 October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which took off from Montevideo ... or water supplies", The Sun said. At first, the survivors attempted to eat shoes and clothes in order to ...