In 1972, a rugby team’s plane crashed in the Andes, leaving survivors stranded for 72 days, forcing them to endure extreme conditions, and ultimately resort to desperate measures to stay alive.

who was one of 16 passengers who survived the now infamous 1972 plane crash, died on March 29 following a bout of pneumonia. The flight, carrying members of Uruguay's Old Christians rugby team ...

In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo ... 170 people were killed in a Soviet airliner crash near Moscow's Sheremetyevo International ...

In 1974 a Turkish Airlines plane crashed near Paris, killing 18 members of a rugby team. Also killed in the crash was club chairman Bryan Ellis, on what was his son Gordon Ellis's eighth birthday.

Preliminary investigation showed the plane Kreger was in ... will continue the investigation. The crash came as a shock to other members of the rugby team who own planes, said Koenig.

In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo ... 170 people were killed in a Soviet airliner crash near Moscow's Sheremetyevo International ...