"In these kinds of situations it's not how you survive but why you survive," Roberto Canessa tells PEOPLE of surviving the 1972 Andes flight disaster Just a few days after their plane crashed into ...

Parrado, 56, is perhaps the best-known of the 16 survivors of the crash of a Uruguayan Air Force plane in the ... author of a book called "Miracle in the Andes." But no matter what he does ...

Álvaro Mangino, second right, following his rescue from the Andes in 1972 - @alvaromangino.oficial/Newsflash/NX ...