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Originally Posted by twitchyzero

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight: World's 10 most mysterious plane disappearances and strangest aircraft crashes - Mirror Online

3 - Alive: The Andes disaster of flight 571

A chartered Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying 45 passengers and crew - including a Rugby Union team from Montevideo - crashed into the Andes mountains in bad weather.

Of the 45 people on the plane, 12 died in the crash.

Six more died in the days afterward, and a further eight in an avalanche that ran through the plane's wreckage, where they were taking shelter.

The remaining 16 passengers only survived by resorting to cannibalism, feeding on the corpses of their dead friends.

They were not found until 72 days after the crash, when two passengers made a ten-day trek across mountainous terrain, eventually finding a Chilean travelling salesman who gave them food and alerted authorities.

The story was immortalised in the 1993 film Alive.

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